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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 8210043, member: 104887&quot;]Hi All,</p><p><br /></p><p>At 47mm I think this is my largest diameter coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440161[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Ex-Noble Numismatics (Australia): Auction 109 (28-30 Jul 2015) Lot # 3692</p><p><br /></p><p>A substantial Zeus-Ammon/eagle bronze coinage of Ptolemy VIII is signed with the epithet Euergetes. RS Poole gave it to Cyrenaica. Svoronos, however, reassigned it to Cyprus and was followed in this by Mørkholm. TV Buttrey, in &#039;The Cyrene Excavations at the Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone, Final Report&#039;, cited finds in the Cyrene excavations to rehabilitate Poole’s attribution. Buttrey dated part of this coinage to Ptolemy’s reign as king in Cyrenaica, and part to the time of his second reign in Egypt. In the absence of clear criteria, bronzes of traditional Ptolemaic type are here assigned, arbitrarily, to Euergetes’ reign in Cyrenaica, while those of traditional Cyrenaican type are assigned to the period 145-116, when he ruled in Egypt. Buttrey’s proposed dates of issue are indicated in the commentary preceding each series or issue.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">Next: Cornucopia(ae) NOT on a Ptolemaic coin.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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