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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 4583178, member: 104887&quot;]That&#039;s easy, my avatar coin. This was the coin I always thought would cap my collecting. I got it only after 10 years or so of active collecting. Sweet.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1135033[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>∎ <b>References:</b> Svoronos 1509, pl lii, 11-12 [4 listed, specimen δ subaeratum]. Three obverse die links known, per J Olivier.</p><p>∎ <b>Hoard:</b> Keneh, 1923 (IGCH 1708), Newell (1927), pl iii, 3.</p><p><br /></p><p>The date should be read across both fields, as L?C KAI A. This double date appears in two other Ptolemaic documents, a demotic papyrus (P. Dem. Fouad) and a stela (I.G. Fayum 198); in both cases it takes the form &quot;year 36, which corresponds to year 1,&quot; a standard dating convention in Ptolemaic texts. [NB: This system of double dating is known from papyri also and is now known to have been used only between July &amp; August 145 BCE.] RS Poole (1883, pp. lxvii-lxviii) interpreted the double date as referring to a brief coregency at the end of the reign of Ptolemy Philometor, and he identified the newly elevated heir with Ptolemy Eupator and numbered him Ptolemy VII. This historical reconstruction, or an alternative involving Philometor&#039;s younger son, has been accepted by most Ptolemaic historians. O Mørkholm (ANS MN 20 1975, pp 9) submitted that subtle evidence of obverse die wear established this issue to be earlier than the year 36 issue of Philometor alone (CPE 1121) and hypothesized that the double date was used only at the moment of the elevation of Ptolemy VII. More recent scholarship has argued that there is no real evidence for this brief joint reign in the dating formularies of documents. M Chauveau (1990; 1991) suggested that the double dates on the coin and in the inscription may reflect a new set of regnal years for Ptolemy VI in Syria, exactly as can be seen on the Syrian coinage of Cleopatra VII more than a century later. W Huss (2001, p 588 n 409) expressed the belief that Ptolemy VI was already dead at the time of this coin issue; in litteris, he interpreted the double date as equating the last year of Ptolemy Philometor with the first year of Ptolemy Euergetes.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>ACCS #51EO/GK/CO/OC: 21-Dec-1993. Same dies as ET Newell (Standard Ptolemaic Silver, 1946), pp 9 &amp; pl v, 3. Sixth known specimen of this type; Don Doswell has #7 (ex-Spink). ANS specimen is ANS 1944-100-78775. BMC lists coin as &quot;not in British Museum Collection.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Ex-COLOSSEUM COIN EXCHANGE, Inc (NJ, USA): Auction 72 (13 Oct 1993), Lot #20</i></b></p><p><b><i></i></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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