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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8000813, member: 110350&quot;]That budget could also conceivably pay for one nice Ptolemaic (or even Seleucid, perhaps) silver coin per month.</p><p><br /></p><p>This perfectly decent Ptolemy VI tetradrachm (portraying Ptolemy I) cost me $450 at retail from Herakles Numismatics (a well-known, reputable dealer) last year.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1388123[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Egypt, Ptolemaic Kingdom, Ptolemy VI Philometor [“Mother-loving”] (First reign, 180-164 BCE), AR Tetradrachm ca.180-170 BCE, Alexandria Mint. Obv. Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / Rev. Eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt, ΠTOΛEMAIOY on left, BAΣIΛEΩΣ on right. Seaby 7895 [Sear, David, <i>Greek Coins &amp; their Values</i>, <i>Vol. II: Asia &amp; Africa</i> (Seaby 1979)]; Svoronos 1489 (ill. Pl. 51a, Nos. 1-5) [Svoronos, J.N., <i>Ta Nomismata tou Kratous ton Ptolemaion </i> (Athens, 1904-08)] (see <a href="https://www.coin.com/images/dr/svoronos/svc001p209t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coin.com/images/dr/svoronos/svc001p209t.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.coin.com/images/dr/svoronos/svc001p209t.html</a> [incorrectly attributed to Ptolemy VIII]); SNG Copenhagen 262-268 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum</i>, <i>Part 40: Egypt: The Ptolemies</i> (Copenhagen 1977)]; BMC 6 Ptolemaic Egypt 3 (p. 100) (ill. Pl. XXIV No. 5) [Poole, R.S., <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 6, Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt</i> (London, 1883)]. 26 mm., 12.14 g.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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