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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2148233, member: 56859&quot;]That&#039;s a nice one!&nbsp; I hope you buy it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one that was absent from my &quot;pound of Ptolemies&quot; collage.&nbsp; It was misfiled and unimaged.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]411796[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>PTOLEMAIC KINGS OF EGYPT</b></p><p><b>Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II </b></p><p>145-116 BCE, Alexandreia mint</p><p>AE28, 29.1 gm</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon right</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ BΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ; Two eagles with their wings closed standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopia to left</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; Svoronos 1424B (Joint reign of Ptolemy VI and VIII); Weiser 142 (Ptolemy V); SNG Copenhagen 308-310 (Joint reign of Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII); Noeske 212-5 (Joint reign of Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII); Lorber &amp; Faucher Series 7C</p><p><br /></p><p>It has a wonderfully dark and smooth patina and the flan is nicely shaped.</p><p><br /></p><p>Time to update the collage-- I have two to add and in a month or so, another one!</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s also time to start looking for the less common mints and types.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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