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Message:: [QUOTE="Broucheion, post: 6286934, member: 104887"]Hi [USER=44210]@ValiantKnight[/USER], Here's my coin (image from Timeline Auctions): [ATTACH=full]1249066[/ATTACH] Regarding your questions, J Olivier (2012) conducted metallurgical analyses showing that the lead and copper content of the dated didrachm series matches the metallic signature of the dated Syro-Phoenician tetradrachms of Ptolemy II and III, and this persuaded him that the coins were struck in the region where they circulated. The latest thinking I know of places the making of these coins at an uncertain mint in Coele Syria, probably Hebron or possibly even Jerusalem. The didrachms of years 101-114 have findspots tightly concentrated around Hebron. Olivier proposed that the era didrachms represented financial support from Ptolemy Philometor for the Jewish revolt against Demetrius I of Syria from 162-152. Lorber notes that a didrachm of the period 162/1-155/4, with the era date on and below the thunderbolt, occurred in a small hoard found in Lebanon, south of Saida, in 2010. The other contents were Seleucid "eagle" didrachms, the latest dated 129/8. This, so far, unique late hoard demonstrates that the era didrachms continued to circulate in the Seleucid province of Coele Syria and Phoenicia after the death of Ptolemy VI. Lorber discusses circulation in the area, including finds of Sv-1209 in <a href="https://www.ejournals.eu/electrum/2019/Volume-26/art/15021/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ejournals.eu/electrum/2019/Volume-26/art/15021/" rel="nofollow">"The Circulation Of Ptolemaic Silver In Seleucid Coele Syria And Phoenicia From Antiochus III To The Maccabean Revolt: Monetary Policies And Political Consequences",</a> ELECTRUM, Vol. 26 (2019): 9–23, doi: 10.4467/20800909EL.19.001.11204. - Broucheion[/QUOTE]

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