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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 3584654, member: 42034&quot;]Another Egyptian bronze. The Egyptians were very fond of making big coins for some reason.&nbsp; Ptolemaic Egypt made the largest &#039;inexpensive&#039; large module bronze coins, some (or rather one type of) semi-inexpensive silver dekadrachms, and of course the semi-common large ancient gold coins the mnaieion or octadrachms at around 28 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one is Ptolemy VIII, Euergetes II, 2nd reign of 145-116 BC.&nbsp; Called a hemidrachm it&#039;s 43mm dia and 38.63 g. It has some striking weakness at points but was otherwise decribed as a good extremely fine.&nbsp; It has the usual centering pits obv&amp; rev for making a nice round flan by the Egyptians. Difficult to fit inside a dollar sized polyethylene coin sleeve and 2x2 flip but it can be done.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://coinsandhistory.com/pix_shared/pix_cointalk/Egypt_Ptolemy-8_AE_both_LN-0800px.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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