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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8019552, member: 87809&quot;]That&#039;s a huge one [USER=75525]@rrdenarius[/USER], impressive. A reference for the monograms is Catharine C. Lorber, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire, Vol. I (2018). In 2018, the American Numismatic Society published the first two volumes of a multi-year project, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire, by American numismatist Catharine C. Lorber, who has spent decades studying this material. <a href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-the-ptolemies-part-i/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-the-ptolemies-part-i/" rel="nofollow">https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-the-ptolemies-part-i/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>About these Drachms one can find in Catharine C. Lorber, Coins of The Ptolemaic Empire, part I, volume 1, pages 128-129, &quot;In his coin images Zeus-Ammon wears a taenia – an ornament for the head - with a vertical protuberance at the top. It is assumed to be a basileion (the Alexandrian term for the headdress or coiffure of an Egyptian deity) and in this case it must be a miniaturized depiction of the tall double feather crown of Amun, viewed in profile.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Had been looking for some time for an octobol and found one that is &quot;almost&quot; but not quite one at the ANA Chicago 2021. </p><p><br /></p><p>Æ Drachm, Egypt, Alexandria, 246 - 222 BC</p><p>72.53 g</p><p><br /></p><p>SNG Copenhagen 171; BMC 87; Weiser 71; Noeske 117; Svoronos 964, Plate XXIX, 19; Sear 7817;</p><p>Monogram 244 from Catharine C. Lorber, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire, Vol. I (2018).</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Horned head of Zeus Ammon to right, wearing taenia with basileion; dotted border</p><p>Rev.: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ on l. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ on r. Eagle with closed wings standing to l. on thunderbolt, monogram Chi-Ro between legs, cornucopiae bound with royal diadem at left; dotted border</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1390371[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1390372[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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