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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 3271791, member: 80804&quot;]The double eagle reverse sees a lot of use in the Ptolemaic Æ series.&nbsp; For the first few reigns, it was typically on the largest or next-to-largest Æ denominations. This type, on compact, ~ 20mm flans with the two -eagle reverse, is usually given to Ptolemy VI-VIII joint reign. It&#039;s considered really common. There is a slightly larger, thinner and/or more obviously conic-section flan, but similar type which is usually associated with Ptolemy IX-X, but that&#039;s seen a lot less frequently.</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album154/15_Ptol_VI_21mm_b.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ptolemy VI &amp; VIII, Joint Reign, 170-164 BC.</p><p>Æ 20mm, 8.58g, 12h. Mint of Alexandria</p><p>Obv: Diademed head of Zeus right wearing Horn of Ammon.</p><p>Rx: ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ. 2 Eagles standing left on thunderbolt, heads left, wings closed; in field left: single cornucopia; no letters between legs.</p><p>Svoronos 1426; Cf. SG 7901.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album154/G_10_Ptol_IX_sv_1843.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Ptolemy IX, 116-106 BC.</p><p>Æ 23mm, 7.09g, 12h. Mint of Alexandria</p><p>Obv: Laureate head of Zeus Ammon right.</p><p>Rx: ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ. Two eagles standing left on thunderbolt, heads left, wings closed; in field, Headdress of Isis; no control between legs. Sv 1843</p><p><br /></p><p>You need to keep in mind, however, that a lot of very serious numismatic scholarship has gone into updating Svoronos&#039; 100+ year old reference in recent years (Katheryn Lorber, among others doing a lot of the work) and the exact reign(s) date-range(s) with which various types are associated. Ptolemaic coins are not able to be pinned quite as easily to the issuing monarch as Roman or more modern royal series with portraits of the current king, and types may be stretched over several reigns - or several types my be subsumed within the same reign. My cataloging above (copied and pasted from my gallery site) may already be obsolete. </p><p>If you don&#039;t know about it, I would suggest you have a look at Daniel Wolfe&#039;s Ptolemy Bronze website - seems like every time I check the photo file, there have been a lot more varieties added to the older divisions and many more temporal and locational divisions of type-groups are shown.</p><p><a href="http://ptolemybronze.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ptolemybronze.com/" rel="nofollow">http://ptolemybronze.com/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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