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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 8329133, member: 86498&quot;]I really cannot saw that I have many coins outside my core interests though I do have a small collection of Talers and some earlier North American dollar sized coins. However I do like those massive Ptolemaic Aes and have a few. </p><p>Ptolemy II Ae Drachm 261-246 BC. Obv Head of Zeus Ammon right wearing horn of Ammon and taenia. Rv. Two eagles standing left wings folded. Below P Svoronos 497 CSE B 261 68.37 grms 40 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1476256[/ATTACH]This coin appears to be among the earliest of these gaint Ptolemaic cartwheels. Prior to this the largest ae coins were diobles which generally had a diameter of 28 grms. It is interesting that the Ptolemies chose to mint these massive ae coins when it would have been far easier to mint a much smaller coin and assign it an arbitrary value. If these coins are based on some reflection of the relative value between silver and copper in the Ptolemaic Empire, then it does bring into focus the entire question of the relative values of these two metals within the Mediterranean basin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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