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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ignoramus Maximus, post: 6259419, member: 104741&quot;]Thank you for the write-up [USER=44210]@ValiantKnight[/USER] ; nice coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently bid on a Ptolemy VI didrachm, (it had a lovely portrait as well) but ended up having the second-highest bid. So, unfortunately, there&#039;s nothing to show. For now, all I have is this really beat-up example of Ptolemy I.&nbsp; Not particularly relevant to this thread, but it&#039;s as close as I can get.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1247868[/ATTACH]</p><p>ΠΤΟΛEΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛEΩΣ.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I like your Antiochus IV, [USER=90981]@Shea19[/USER]. A Seleucid coin in Ptolemaic style: a succinct yet eloquent way to sum up a long century of quarrel and warfare in a single coin! I wonder: does the reverse exist as well? A Ptolemaic coin in Seleucid style?</p><p><br /></p><p>ps: can anyone explain why the legend on Ptolemaic coins is often rendered with ΠΤΟΛEΜΑΙΟΥ first and ΒΑΣΙΛEΩΣ second? Whereas on the coins of Lysimachos, Seleukos, and Alexander, to name a few examples, the ΒΑΣΙΛEΩΣ&nbsp; always comes first. Is it just convention or is there another, deeper reason I&#039;m unaware of?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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