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<p>[QUOTE="Broucheion, post: 3882793, member: 104887"]Hi [USER=99531]@Nvb[/USER], I love the Alexanders that were down-sized and re-issued as ~15.5 g coins. Yours is a really nice example. You can see signs of the old undertype on the reverse, between Athena's face and above the shield. It may be the (old) top of Alexander's head. Brooks Emmons wrote about these years ago in <i>The Overstruck Coinage of Ptolemy I</i> (ANS Museum Notes 6, 1954). She explains the fascinating story behind the adjusted weight standards that abruptly changed mid-issue. The PDF is available for free online with the rest of ANS pubs digitized content. I found it <a href="https://archive.org/details/ANSMusNotes1954Vols6to8/page/n83" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/ANSMusNotes1954Vols6to8/page/n83" rel="nofollow">here</a> ( <a href="https://archive.org/details/ANSMusNotes1954Vols6to8/page/n83" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/ANSMusNotes1954Vols6to8/page/n83" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/ANSMusNotes1954Vols6to8/page/n83</a> ). Of course it's also discussed in Lorber's <i>Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin down-sizing was also recently discussed in a bit more depth in a thread started by [USER=58462]@Nemo[/USER] (<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ptolemy-i-overstruck-light-tetradrachm.336874/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ptolemy-i-overstruck-light-tetradrachm.336874/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ptolemy-i-overstruck-light-tetradrachm.336874/</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Broucheion, post: 3882793, member: 104887"]Hi [USER=99531]@Nvb[/USER], I love the Alexanders that were down-sized and re-issued as ~15.5 g coins. Yours is a really nice example. You can see signs of the old undertype on the reverse, between Athena's face and above the shield. It may be the (old) top of Alexander's head. Brooks Emmons wrote about these years ago in [I]The Overstruck Coinage of Ptolemy I[/I] (ANS Museum Notes 6, 1954). She explains the fascinating story behind the adjusted weight standards that abruptly changed mid-issue. The PDF is available for free online with the rest of ANS pubs digitized content. I found it [URL='https://archive.org/details/ANSMusNotes1954Vols6to8/page/n83']here[/URL] ( [URL]https://archive.org/details/ANSMusNotes1954Vols6to8/page/n83[/URL] ). Of course it's also discussed in Lorber's [I]Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire[/I]. This coin down-sizing was also recently discussed in a bit more depth in a thread started by [USER=58462]@Nemo[/USER] ([URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ptolemy-i-overstruck-light-tetradrachm.336874/[/URL]). - Broucheion[/QUOTE]
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