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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 7565846, member: 104887&quot;]Hi All,</p><p><br /></p><p>12 Hour Rule. Overstruck Coin and its undertype.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1304566[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Æ Hemiobol Ptolemy I Soter (306/305-283 BCE), Egypt, Alexandria / Cyprus? Series 2A: ca 306-294 BCE</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Size: </b>17x15 mm</p><p><b>Weight:</b> 2.5 g</p><p><b>Die Axis: </b>1:00</p><p><br /></p><p><b>OBV:</b> Alexander the Great, diademmed and horned bare head with long, curly hair, facing right. No border visible. Overstruck on coin of Demetrius with reverse prow of ship. Monogram AP and labris below chin (reverse undertype) showing through at base of Alexander&#039;s head.</p><p>Æ Hemiobol Εagle facing left, wings spread. In right field: ΚΛ above Corinthian helmet. Legend: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ; to right: [ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ] off flan. No border visible.</p><p><b>References:</b> Lorber: CPE-B0022; Sv-0171, pl A, 26 [9 listed]; SNG Copenhagen-43 var: different monogram.</p><p><b>Undertype: </b>(Æ 17mm; 2.63g; Die Axis:00:00): ET Newell, <i>&quot;The Coinages of Demetrius Poliorcetes,&quot; </i>pl. II, 9 &amp; 10. Neither example shows the curving tip of the prow all the way up to the ornament, but 10 shows enough to assure the identification of the undertype. See also Newell 163; SNG München 1056; SNG Alpha Bank 956.</p><p><b>Provenances:</b> David Hendin (Ptolemaic) Praefectus Coins (Demetrious)</p><p><br /></p><p>From CC Lorber - CPE: &quot;Ptolemy’s final currency reform can be dated with precision. The overstriking of bronze coins of Demetrius Poliorcetes with the types of B22 establishes that the reform can be dated no earlier than the Ptolemaic recovery of Cyprus in 294, while the overstriking of Demetrian bronzes with the types of B78 indicates that the process of overstriking the enemy’s coinage continued after the currency reform. The evidence of the overstrikes can be supplemented by control links between the reformed precious metal coinage of Alexandria and issues of Cyprus, Sidon, and Tyre. The earliest Cypriote issues share four of the above-mentioned controls (CPE 217-218, 221-222, 230, 234-236), while the earliest issue of Sidon and the second of Tyre share one of them (CPE 241-242, 244-245). The first Ptolemaic tetradrachm of Tyre (CPE 243), though not involved in this nexus of control links, was closely related to the coinage of Demetrian Tyre but struck on the weight standard of the reformed coinage. The currency reform is thus fixed between the Ptolemaic reconquest of Cyprus and the surrender of Tyre. CC Lorber (2012) has now demonstrated that the latter event must be situated in the immediate aftermath of the victory on Cyprus.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">NEXT: Overstruck coin (and if possible) the undertype.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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