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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 8154023, member: 104887&quot;]Hi All,</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1422610[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Bought from Bargain Bin Ancients (CT member Brian Buckland, his photo).</p><p><br /></p><p>Attributed to Cyrenaica, late 2nd century, by T V Buttrey, in &quot;<i>Essays Grierson</i>,&quot; page 24 note 1, but not noted in the synopsis of his &quot;<i>Demeter Sanctuary</i>.&quot; See also &quot;<i>Ptolemaic Lead Coinage in Coele Syria</i>&quot; (103-101 BCE), by Oliver D. Hoover, INR, Vol 3 (2008) pp 81-86.</p><p><br /></p><p>O D HOOVER: &quot;The types used for this series are drawn directly from a Ptolemaic bronze coinage struck at Alexandria (Svoronos 1904:246, Nos. 1732-1733). The mint of the bronze coinage seems assured as some 43 specimens (one twelfth of the Ptolemaic coin finds) have been found in the excavations carried out by the Centre d’Etudes Alexandrines (Picard 2005:85). The small Alexandrian bronzes upon which [similar] lead pieces are modeled feature the horned head of Zeus-Ammon on the obverse and the Ptolemaic eagle standing on a thunderbolt flanked by either Κ - Λ (presumably for ΚΛ[ΕΟΠΑΤΡΑΣ]) or Β - Α (presumably for ΒΑ[ΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ]) on the reverse. [NB: TV Buttrey attributes Sv-1733 to Cyrenaica.]&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>CC Lorber (<i>The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage</i>): &quot;Also attributable to Cleopatra are small Ammon/eagle bronzes marked B-A or K-Λ; these must represent the smallest unit of the currency system, the bronze pentadrachm described by Hero of Alexandria in connection with dispensing machines for holy water (Maresch 1996: 96-97; Picard 2005: 85, 2008).&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion</p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: #ff0000">Next: More coins from CT members.</span></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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