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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silphium Addict, post: 7590247, member: 116882&quot;]An interesting aspect of collecting Kyrenaika coins are “unpublished&quot; coin types which still show up about once or twice a year. Here are a few examples:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1307544[/ATTACH]</p><p>Kyrenaika, Kyrene&nbsp; AR tetradrachm</p><p>480-435 BC 17.03 gm 30 mm 12h</p><p>O: type I silphium plant with root; grain kernel lower right</p><p>R: head Zeus Ammon right; corded circle border; [Κ]VΡΑΝΑΙΟΝ around</p><p>&quot;unpublished&quot; cf BMC pl. XXXIV, 4–6 (Barke)</p><p>Triton XX:394 01/09/2017; F&amp;S MB 14:294 06/21/2007</p><p><br /></p><p>I was shown the coin when it first came to the US to see if I knew anything about the type. There may be other examples in existence, but not that I am aware of. There are no other published Attic weight tetradrachms using the legend &quot;ΚVΡΑΝΑΙΟΝ&quot; but some from the same period using &quot;BARKΑΙΟΝ&quot; This lead Robinson in BMC Cyrenaica to think that Barke was dominant during this period, but it may just be that fewer from Kyrene survived.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1307557[/ATTACH]</p><p>Kyrenaika, Kyrene&nbsp; AR didrachm</p><p>525-500 BC 7.45 gm</p><p>O: head ram right above two silphium fruits</p><p>R: crude rectangular punch</p><p>cf. Buttrey 61-64 (drachms)</p><p>HJ Berk buy-bid 171:196 05/24/2012</p><p><br /></p><p>A rough specimen of an unpublished denomination, but what can you do when you have never seen any others?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1307563[/ATTACH]</p><p>Kyrenaika, Barke (?) AE17</p><p>258-250 BC? 17 mm 5.12 gm 12h</p><p>O: diademed head Ptolemy I right</p><p>R: ram standing left; star to left; inscription above and below?</p><p>unpublished</p><p>CNG e351:418 05/20/2015 ex-Alexandre Carathéodory Pasha</p><p><br /></p><p>Another rough but unpublished example. Probably from the time when Magas had reconciled with Ptolemy II.</p><p><br /></p><p>I prefer not to label these &quot;unique&quot; even though I am not aware of any other examples because some may exist in private collections (like the AE above), be found in the next hoard (like the ΚVΡΑΝΑΙΟΝ tet) or even gathering dust in some museum basement. &quot;Unpublished&quot; also seems to be an appropriate term when purchased but that will no longer apply when a much needed new reference is available. (Dr. Fischer-Bossert?) Personally, I think they certainly qualify as &quot;rare&quot; but &quot;not often seen&quot; applies too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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