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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 7952111, member: 104887&quot;]Hi All,</p><p><br /></p><p>My only Spanish coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Ptolemy of Numidia, Minted In Spain, Carthago Nova, after 21 CE </b>(<i>see comments</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1377832[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Æ SEMIS</b></p><p><b>Size:</b> 20x21 mm</p><p><b>Weight:</b> 5.51 g</p><p><b>Die Axis:</b> 10:00</p><p><br /></p><p><b>OBV:</b> Augustus bare head facing right. Legend reading counter clockwise from 5:00 position: AVGVSTVS - DIVI F. Border not visible.</p><p><b>REV:</b> Legend reading counter clockwise from 5:00 position: C LAETILIVS APALVS II V Q. Within diadem (without crescent and lotus): REX/PTOL in two lines within diadem. Diadem without lotus and crescent. Dotted border. C Laetilius Apalus was duovir quinquennalis.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>References: </b>RPC I 172; SNG Copenhagen 494; Mazard-0514; Burgos 590; NAH 996; Vives 131-135, Beltrán 30, GMI 167</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Note about the dating .... if anyone can comment further on the note below please do.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Robert Kokotailo (16 Sep 2017) in a post to MONETA-L wrote:</p><p>&quot;In all the listings I can find the bronze coins from Spain that have Augustus on the obverse and name Ptolemy as King on the reverse, at [sic] attributed to the time of Augustus, and simply dated to his reign of 27 BC to AD 14. I can [sic] across one of those coins recently and while writing up it, it occurred to me that currently accepted date of these coins has to be incorrect.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one thing that does make sense is they were probably minted at Carthega Nova in Spain as they are found in some numbers in Spain.</p><p><br /></p><p>The dating of them to the time of Augustus has to be incorrect in spite of the portrait showing Augustus because Ptolemy of Numidia were [sic] not appointed as King until AD 21. The coins clearly name him as King to [sic] these coins have to date to the time of Tiberius. Ptolemy&#039;s father had business interests in Spain importing the purple dye made from the Murex shell, which must have something to do with why these coins were minted there, and as those business concessions were given to the family by Augustus, that might explain why Augustus is commemorated on the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I plan to look into these coins further in case there is something I have missed that would make them from the time of Augustus, but at this point I think the time of Tiberius is more likely.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any comments or further information on these would be appreciated.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">Next: A coin from North Africa, any mint or time period.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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