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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4563085, member: 110350&quot;]Still a great coin, [USER=10461]@lordmarcovan[/USER] !&nbsp; Just one correction in your description: as stated in the CNG archives entry that [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER]&nbsp; posted in your other thread (see <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6483628" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6483628" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6483628</a>), as well as in the translated Svoronos [not Svornos] 1228 entry -- you have to go back to the first page of the didrachms [incorrectly attributed to Ptolemies IV and V] for the description of the obverses; see <a href="https://www.coin.com/images/dr/svoronos/svc001p169t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coin.com/images/dr/svoronos/svc001p169t.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.coin.com/images/dr/svoronos/svc001p169t.html</a> -- that&#039;s the head of Ptolemy I on the obverse, not Ptolemy VI.&nbsp; Just like my own recently-acquired Ptolemy VI tetradrachm, which I wrote about in another thread as well, depicts Ptolemy I on the obverse.&nbsp; You can&#039;t miss that profile of Ptolemy I, and the later Ptolemies continued to use it frequently!</p><p><br /></p><p>Egypt, Ptolemaic Kingdom, Ptolemy VI Philometor [“Mother-loving”] (First reign, 180-164 BCE), ca.180-170 BCE, Alexandria Mint. Obv. Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / Rev. Eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt, ΠTOΛEMAIOY on left, BAΣIΛEΩΣ on right. Seaby 7895 [D. Sear, <i>Greek Coins &amp; their Values</i>, <i>Vol. II: Asia &amp; Africa</i> (Seaby 1979)]; Svoronos 1489 (ill. Pl. 51a, Nos. 1-5) [J.N. Svoronos, <i>Ta Nomismata tou Kratous ton Ptolemaion </i> (Athens, 1904-08)] (see <a href="https://www.coin.com/images/dr/svoronos/svc001p209t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coin.com/images/dr/svoronos/svc001p209t.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.coin.com/images/dr/svoronos/svc001p209t.html</a> [incorrectly attributed to Ptolemy VIII]); SNG Copenhagen 262-268 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum</i>, <i>Part 40: Egypt: The Ptolemies</i> (Copenhagen 1977)]; BMC 6 Ptolemaic Egypt 3 (p. 100) (ill. Pl. XXIV No. 5) [R.S. Poole, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 6, Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt</i> (London, 1883)]. 26 mm., 12.14 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1129620[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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