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<p>[QUOTE="Broucheion, post: 4967802, member: 104887"]Hi,</p><p><br /></p><p>CPE says:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>Coin of Tyre, ca 274-271 BCE. COINAGE ON SYSTEM OF PTOLEMY I SERIES 2, BRONZE WEIGHT STANDARD 1 </p><p><br /></p><p>The club and letter series of precious metal coins (CPE 551-559) is plausibly dated to the time of the First Syria War, see C. Lorber (2012, p. 40). It is distinguished from earlier Tyrian coinage by a different set of associated bronze denominations, including diobols (unknown to Svoronos), hemiobols, and chalkoi. Some of the following bronzes were struck in connection with gold and silver emissions that bore the same controls. The two larger denominations share the club mintmark of the precious metal coinage, but the smallest bronze retains the dolphin mintmark of the inaugural issue (B131), except that the dolphin is now placed vertically instead of horizontally. </p><p><br /></p><p>Bronze chalkous (9-12 mm, c. 2 g): Horned head of deified Alexander r., wearing mitra, with short hair PTOLEMAOY on l., BASILEWS on r., eagle with spread wings standing l. on thunderbolt, dotted border.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Well, “denominations share the club mintmark of the precious metal coinage, but the smallest bronze retains the dolphin mintmark”, is now demonstrably contradicted.</p><p><br /></p><p>-Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Broucheion, post: 4967802, member: 104887"]Hi, CPE says: [INDENT]Coin of Tyre, ca 274-271 BCE. COINAGE ON SYSTEM OF PTOLEMY I SERIES 2, BRONZE WEIGHT STANDARD 1 The club and letter series of precious metal coins (CPE 551-559) is plausibly dated to the time of the First Syria War, see C. Lorber (2012, p. 40). It is distinguished from earlier Tyrian coinage by a different set of associated bronze denominations, including diobols (unknown to Svoronos), hemiobols, and chalkoi. Some of the following bronzes were struck in connection with gold and silver emissions that bore the same controls. The two larger denominations share the club mintmark of the precious metal coinage, but the smallest bronze retains the dolphin mintmark of the inaugural issue (B131), except that the dolphin is now placed vertically instead of horizontally. Bronze chalkous (9-12 mm, c. 2 g): Horned head of deified Alexander r., wearing mitra, with short hair PTOLEMAOY on l., BASILEWS on r., eagle with spread wings standing l. on thunderbolt, dotted border.[/INDENT] Well, “denominations share the club mintmark of the precious metal coinage, but the smallest bronze retains the dolphin mintmark”, is now demonstrably contradicted. -Broucheion[/QUOTE]
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