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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eparch, post: 4941327, member: 89211&quot;]I have a sub collection of the coins of the Brettii and acquired this one </p><p>to fill a gap</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1187862[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Bruttium, The Brettii</b> (214-203 BC), Æ Half-Unit (Triobol), 18mm.</p><p>Its a humble coin , but comes from the 1895 sale of part of the collection of <b>Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Petrie is one of the most important and influential figures in the history of Egyptology. He was an archaeologist whose sixty years in field produced an enormous amount of archaeological evidence for all periods of Egyptian history from prehistoric through to medieval times. The thousand or so publications he produced are testament to his tireless endeavours to recover information before it was destroyed by modern developments in cultivation and urbanisation. Such output was perhaps too prolific for the long-term, detailed and meticulous excavations that characterise archaeology today, but nevertheless Petrie&#039;s many achievements had a profound influence upon the disciplines of Egyptology and archaeology. He advanced chronological methods through his invention of sequence dating for the Predynastic period, and in 1891 he established synchronisms with Greek pottery. Petrie was emphatic that everything excavated was to be noted, even seemingly small innocuous items and this was perhaps one of his most important contributions[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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