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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2024682, member: 42634&quot;]well, i didn&#039;t have the heart to put this in the ugly thread. it&#039;s better lookin in hand than in pic. it looks shiny because i gave it a coat of verdi-care.&nbsp; it had some spots i wanted to clean up a bit, looks better now.&nbsp; the pores have some light colored hard stuff in it, the flash from my camera makes them really show up in the pic...also less noticeable in hand.&nbsp; a nice chunky coin...also feels nice in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>anyway, does fit the &quot;barrel scraper&quot; thread, coming in at under 25 bucks with shipping.&nbsp; so i&#039;ll post it here.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/102_5398_zps6e773e50.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/102_5398_zps6e773e50.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/102_5398_zps6e773e50.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b> Ptolemy VI, Philometor </b></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>180-145 BC,</b></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>O: Head of Isis (or Cleopatra I as Isis?)</b></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>R: PTOLEMAIOU BASILEWS, eagle standing left, wing open, on thunderbolt.&nbsp; Pi over alpha in left field.</b></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Svoronos 1384</b></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>27mm</b></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>16.8g </b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>philometor means &quot;he loved his mother&quot;,&nbsp; cleopatra i.&nbsp; some sources have her as being on the obverse as isis, i&#039;m not sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>interesting note: he also &quot;loved&quot; his sister, married her and had several kids with her.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_VI_Philometor" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_VI_Philometor" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_VI_Philometor</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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