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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 4277789, member: 104887&quot;]Hi All, My only Ptolemaic horsies.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1088688[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Ptolemy III Euergetes (246-222 BCE)</b></p><p><b>Asia Minor, Cilicia, probably Tarsus ca 278 BCE (After Tarsus&#039; Capture by Ptolemy II)</b></p><p><b>Size:</b> 19x20mm</p><p><b>Weight:</b> 6.66 g</p><p><b>Die Axis:</b> 01:00</p><p>Undertype: SC-0565; WSM-1313η (Antiochus II); Koln 59; SNG Spaer 348A</p><p><b>OBV:</b> Dioscuri, wearing pointed caps surmounted by stars, and holding their spears upright, mounted on prancing horses moving to right. At 10:00</p><p>position ountermark of Ptolemaic eagle, wings closed, facing right within circular punch. Dotted border.</p><p><b>REV:</b> Athena Promachos standing, with spear and shield, brandishing javelin in right hand, shield in left hand, anchor with flukes left below. In left field:</p><p>[ΒΑ]ΣΙΛΕΩΣ; In right field: ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ. No control. Plain border.</p><p><br /></p><p>So far, there is no evidence that Ptolemy III struck bronze coinage in Cilicia. Instead, it appears that his policy was to countermark bronze coins already circulating in the area. ET Newell (1941) identified as Ptolemaic the eagle countermark that appears on bronzes of Antiochus II from the Tarsus mint (WSM 1312γ &amp; 1313η], with discussion of the countermark on p 223); for another example, see Koln 59. The Ptolemaic eagle countermark also appears on a civic bronze of Adana in the RN Draskowski collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>ET Newell (1941, pp 222-223) attributed this series to Tarsus during the Ptolemaic occupation of 246-243. Davesne redated the series to the Second Syrian War, specifically to the short period from the end of 261 to 259. Davesne &#039;s reattribution is persuasive, because there is a break in the Tarsian coinage of Antiochus II that is filled by the following series, which displays control links to both the preceding and subsequent coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>CC Lorber (EUROS, 2014): Alain Davesne showed that these coins interrupted the sequence of Antiochus II, and he proposed a date of issue in the early part of the Second Syrian War, specifically from the end of 261 to 259. ... Unfortunately, we know nothing about Tarsus under Ptolemy II except that his dominance was only an interlude.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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