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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silphium Addict, post: 8343633, member: 116882&quot;]<i>Did you search or find any provenance for any of the kyrene coins? It somehow looked like someone&#039;s collection but nothing was mentioned in the lot descriptions</i></p><p>[USER=94602]@pprp[/USER] </p><p>I agree that someone must have put together a fairly complete series of varieties. It has taken over 20 years for me to do the same. I did not check for provenances on all the lots, but did not find any prior sales or collections for the 5-6 that I considered bidding on.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=97383]@Al Kowsky[/USER] </p><p>Those are some of the nicest specimens offered. I think lot 511, the archaic tet was certainly the pick of the litter. It clearly shows a gazelle and probably a silphium plant in the reverse punch. A great example of the transition of the Kyrene archaic tet reverses from crude incuse punch to rectangular incuse punch to parallel rectangles incuse punch to lines/patterns in parallel rectangles incuse punch to object in rectangular incuse punch to object in incuse square. (Robinson, <i>BMC Cyrenaica</i>, xxviii-xxix)</p><p><br /></p><p>Lot 518, the star / star reverse didrachms shows a transition in style for the type when compared with lots 516 &amp; 517, also with star / star reverses. </p><p><br /></p><p>Lot 516, Kyrene AR didrachm 18.5mm, 7.47 g, BMC 236b</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479846[/ATTACH] </p><p>CNG image</p><p><br /></p><p>516 &amp; 517 have similar style heads and silphium plants with flans that are often compact and struck off-center with flat areas, like lots 514 (BMC 228-233: cornucopia) and 515 (BMC 234-236: star). BMC 236a (star / star) obverse die was also used with a star reverse (BMC 235<i>bis</i>). </p><p><br /></p><p>Lot 518 is more similar to the subsequent lots and is even an obverse die match with lot 545 ( BMC 258a: no symbol, double silphium umbels.) (For die matches, Robinson, <i>BMC Cyrenaica</i>, cvi)</p><p><br /></p><p>Lot 545, Kyrene AR didrachm 21.5mm, 7.68 g, BMC 258a</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479849[/ATTACH] </p><p>CNG image</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, here is online access to the Fischer-Bossert article I mentioned in my initial post: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/30945819/The_Didrachm_Coinage_of_Magas_in_M_Asolati_ed_Le_monete_di_Cirene_e_della_Cirenaica_nel_Mediterraneo_Atti_del_V_Congresso_Internazionale_di_Numismatica_e_di_Storia_Monetaria_Padova_17_19_marzo_2016_Padova_2016_pp_57_64" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/30945819/The_Didrachm_Coinage_of_Magas_in_M_Asolati_ed_Le_monete_di_Cirene_e_della_Cirenaica_nel_Mediterraneo_Atti_del_V_Congresso_Internazionale_di_Numismatica_e_di_Storia_Monetaria_Padova_17_19_marzo_2016_Padova_2016_pp_57_64" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/30945819/The_Didrachm_Coinage_of_Magas_in_M_Asolati_ed_Le_monete_di_Cirene_e_della_Cirenaica_nel_Mediterraneo_Atti_del_V_Congresso_Internazionale_di_Numismatica_e_di_Storia_Monetaria_Padova_17_19_marzo_2016_Padova_2016_pp_57_64</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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