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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 5161617, member: 104887&quot;]Hi All,</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a tricky one. Several things are going on here but it is Zeus Salaminios holding a patera instead of the wheat stalks usually seen. The attribution to Ptolemy V in my collection is a place holder until the next CPE volumes are ready. I expect this to be a coin of Cleopatra or, more probably Augustus, from Cyprus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Attribution of this type to Cleopatra VII is made by Ino Nicolaou in &quot;<i>Paphos II: The Coins From the House of Dionysos</i>,&quot; (1990); in the Bank of Cyprus catalog (<i>Museum of the History of Cypriot Coinage, Coin catalogue, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation</i>, Nicosia 1996 Ch 11, coin #35 (as Cleopatra VII)); and by the much discredited Matt Kreuzer (&quot;<i>The Coinage System of Cleopatra VII and Augustus in Cyprus</i>&quot; self-published, 2004).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1210019[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>References: <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1889-0605-17" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1889-0605-17" rel="nofollow">BMC Registration #1889,0605.17</a>, where no dating is ventured.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kreuzer speculates this coin circulated as a hemi-obol, a half of the broad thin obols <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/3903" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/3903" rel="nofollow">RPC-3903</a> and a quarter of the rare diobol, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/3902" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/3902" rel="nofollow">RPC-3902</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kreuzer from <i>Coinage System of Cleopatra</i>: &quot;The obverse of this type featured the laureate, not diademed nor horned, head of Zeus right. This was a stylistic departure from previous diademed and horned Zeus-Ammon heads. Die axis is generally 12:00. The reverse has Zeus standing head to left, holding ears of grain on a single stalk (?) in his left hand and a scepter in his right hand, and a star above his head. The unusual pose for Zeus was apparently taken from a statue of the God. The statue of Zeus Salaminios appears in this pose on the coins of Augustus and later Roman rulers. On the Roman issues, Zeus holds a patera, and the scepter is eagle-tipped. This statue stood in a temple on the Acropolis of Salamis, which was re-built by Augustus in c. 22 BC, although the statue may have been older, after the Zeus of Pheidias. The reverse of the coin is far less likely the Zeus Plienus of Paphos (Zeus the Protector, of Paphos). Oddly, there is no reverse legend, unique among Ptolemaic coins [<span style="color: #0000ff"><i>NB: there are other anepigraphic Ptolemaic coins</i></span>], which otherwise all name a ruler.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">Next: Another coin from Cyprus</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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