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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2983987, member: 19463&quot;]Nice coin!&nbsp; I don&#039;t have one but do have a related coin of Antiochus IV of the Seleucid Empire (Syria) who invaded Egypt and contested with the incompetent advisers for Ptolemy VI after the death of Cleopatra.&nbsp; During this period, he issued coins resembling the Egyptian style.&nbsp; It is likely that Antiochus would have annexed Egypt at this time but the Roman ambassador in the region made it clear that doing anything would be taken as declaring war with Rome so Antiochus went home.&nbsp; The coin below fits nicely between the lifetime issues showing Cleopatra I and the posthumous ones like the OP issued by her son.&nbsp; I am not up on how we separate the various Cleopatra coins or assign them to periods. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]734570[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>For a while, Ptolemy VI ruled jointly with his brother Ptolemy VIII who later moved his sphere of influence to Kyrenaica leaving Ptolemy VI as sole ruler.&nbsp; Coins of the joint period have two eagles on the reverse like the AE21 below.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]734587[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The AE16 with head of Libya below is from Ptolemy VIII&#039;s time in Kyrenaica.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]734590[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If you can keep your Ptolemys straight without a cheat-sheet, you are much better than I.&nbsp; It is an interesting period.&nbsp; I took my spellings from Sear.&nbsp; Can someone explain why we use Kyrenaica rather than Kyrenaika or Cyrenaica? </p><p><br /></p><p>Repeating: Very nice coin, Ken.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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