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<p>[QUOTE="Silphium Addict, post: 8341936, member: 116882"]Now that CNG 120 is finished, did everyone see the 33 Kyrene didrachm lots? If not, check them out because almost every known major variety is represented, including a new one, lot 533:</p><p><a href="https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/view/4-5IOMQL/kyrenaica-kyrene-temp-magas-circa-294-275-bc-ar-didrachm-20mm-771-g-12h" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/view/4-5IOMQL/kyrenaica-kyrene-temp-magas-circa-294-275-bc-ar-didrachm-20mm-771-g-12h" rel="nofollow">https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/view/4-5IOMQL/kyrenaica-kyrene-temp-magas-circa-294-275-bc-ar-didrachm-20mm-771-g-12h</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This type (see my avatar) weighs ~7.8 gm on the Ptolemaic first weight reduction standard used 305-295 BC according to Cathy Lorber in "A revised chronology for the coinage of Ptolemy I" <i>NC</i> 165:45-64 2005.</p><p>Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert reported 256 die varieties in his article on the series, "The Didrachm Coinage of Magas" in M. Asolati, ed., <i>Le monete di Cirene e della Cirenaica nel Mediterraneo. Problemi e prospettive. Atti del V Congresso Internationale di Numismatica e di Storia Monetaria Padova, 17-19 marzo 2016. </i>However, there are about 20 varieties based on the monograms and/or symbols used.</p><p><br /></p><p>I won a few of the lots as my first acquisitions of 2022. These additions almost complete my goal of having an example of every major variety. One was lot 540, BMC 254a = Pozzi 3285: </p><p><a href="https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/view/4-5IOMR0/kyrenaica-kyrene-temp-magas-circa-294-275-bc-ar-didrachm-21mm-760-g-7h" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/view/4-5IOMR0/kyrenaica-kyrene-temp-magas-circa-294-275-bc-ar-didrachm-21mm-760-g-7h" rel="nofollow">https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/view/4-5IOMR0/kyrenaica-kyrene-temp-magas-circa-294-275-bc-ar-didrachm-21mm-760-g-7h</a></p><p>The Pozzi specimen is the only other example of the variety I know of.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Silphium Addict, post: 8341936, member: 116882"]Now that CNG 120 is finished, did everyone see the 33 Kyrene didrachm lots? If not, check them out because almost every known major variety is represented, including a new one, lot 533: [URL]https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/view/4-5IOMQL/kyrenaica-kyrene-temp-magas-circa-294-275-bc-ar-didrachm-20mm-771-g-12h[/URL] This type (see my avatar) weighs ~7.8 gm on the Ptolemaic first weight reduction standard used 305-295 BC according to Cathy Lorber in "A revised chronology for the coinage of Ptolemy I" [I]NC[/I] 165:45-64 2005. Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert reported 256 die varieties in his article on the series, "The Didrachm Coinage of Magas" in M. Asolati, ed., [I]Le monete di Cirene e della Cirenaica nel Mediterraneo. Problemi e prospettive. Atti del V Congresso Internationale di Numismatica e di Storia Monetaria Padova, 17-19 marzo 2016. [/I]However, there are about 20 varieties based on the monograms and/or symbols used. I won a few of the lots as my first acquisitions of 2022. These additions almost complete my goal of having an example of every major variety. One was lot 540, BMC 254a = Pozzi 3285: [URL]https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/view/4-5IOMR0/kyrenaica-kyrene-temp-magas-circa-294-275-bc-ar-didrachm-21mm-760-g-7h[/URL] The Pozzi specimen is the only other example of the variety I know of.[/QUOTE]
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