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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2146148, member: 56859&quot;]I&#039;ve blown past the one pound mark and now have 15 Ptolemaic bronzes.&nbsp; This one was purchased because of the excellent Zeus Ammon portrait, its unusually good condition, and because I didn&#039;t have a Ptolemy III ChiRho.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]411193[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>EGYPT.&nbsp; Ptolemy III Euergetes</b></p><p>246-222 BCE</p><p>AE35, 35.53 gm</p><p>Obv: Head of Zeus Ammon right with ram&#039;s horn, wearing taenia diadem</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ BΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ; eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt, filleted cornucopia left; XP monogram between eagle&#039;s legs</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; Svoronos 965</p><p>Formerly slabbed; NGC ChVF*, strike 5/5, surface 4/5.</p><p><br /></p><p>The green is hard encrustation.&nbsp; I&#039;m inclined to leave it alone because my cleaning skills are not very good and I don&#039;t want to disturb the underlying metal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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