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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 3942927, member: 104887&quot;]Hi @<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/maridvnvm.31620/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/maridvnvm.31620/">maridvnvm</a>,</p><p><br /></p><p>Your Ptolemy VI is actually a Ptolemy V (CPE-968). The checking point is the length of eagle&#039;s leg feathers:&nbsp; if they cover the legs it&#039;s Ptolemy VI; if not it&#039;s Ptolemy V.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mine has the same reverse die as your beauty. I&#039;m sure of the attribution as Cathy Lorber has seen these images. Here&#039;s mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1039320[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Ptolemy V Epiphanes (205/204-180 BCE), Egypt, Alexandria</b></p><p><b>Main Silver Series, From 204 BCE</b></p><p><b>Size:</b> 25x27mm</p><p><b>Weight</b>: 14.14g</p><p><b>Die Axis:</b> 00:00</p><p><b>OBV:</b> Ptolemy I head facing right, wearing diadem and scaly aegis tied by snakes. Dotted border.</p><p><b>REV:</b> Eagle on thunderbolt facing left, wings closed; Legend to left: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ, on right ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ. Dotted border.</p><p><i><b>Lorber: CPE-0968; Sv-1231, pi xl, 2 &amp; 4-6 [23 listed]; SNG Cop 244-245; Sear-7856; BMC 06.100, #009.</b></i></p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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