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<p>[QUOTE="Broucheion, post: 4683821, member: 104887"]Hi All,</p><p><br /></p><p>I do a few plate coins, but here is one not yet posted before.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1152718[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>This coin pictured on page 66 of RA Hazzard's "Handbook of Ptolemaic Coins" (First Edition, 1995).</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>PTOLEMY III EUERGETES (246-222 BCE), EGYPT, ALEXANDRIA</b></p><p><b>early stages of Third Syrian War</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>AR TETRADRACHM (STATER)</b></p><p><b>Size:</b> 28mm </p><p><b>Weight:</b> 14.25 g</p><p><b>Axis:</b> 0</p><p><br /></p><p><b>OBV:</b> Ptolemy I head facing right, wearing diadem and scaly aegis tied by snakes. Dotted border.</p><p><b>REV:</b> Εagle on thunderbolt facing left, wings closed. In left field a large single cornucopia twisting to left. To left: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ; to right ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ. Dotted</p><p>border.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Refs:</b> LORBER: CPE-0732; Sv-1001, pl xxx, 9-11 [19 listed]; SNG Copenhagen 167-168 (COP-167, same obv die); Sear-7806; BMC 06.054, #083</p><p><br /></p><p><b>PEDIGREE:</b> EH 96 The Iraq Al-Amir Hoard, 1993 (CH 9.497, 10.268), #72C. Same dies as #71. See ANS 1935.117.1092 (same dies); COP-167, same obv die. Same obv die as P-2020-06-21.001.</p><p><br /></p><p>From Lorber (CPE): "An unpublished die study of the Alexandrian cornucopiae tetradrachms by V. van Driessche identified only ten obverse dies, implying a compact emission surely struck in connection with the Third Syrian War. Possibly the entire issue can be associated with the early stages of the war."</p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Broucheion, post: 4683821, member: 104887"]Hi All, I do a few plate coins, but here is one not yet posted before. [ATTACH=full]1152718[/ATTACH] [B]This coin pictured on page 66 of RA Hazzard's "Handbook of Ptolemaic Coins" (First Edition, 1995).[/B] [B]PTOLEMY III EUERGETES (246-222 BCE), EGYPT, ALEXANDRIA early stages of Third Syrian War AR TETRADRACHM (STATER) Size:[/B] 28mm [B]Weight:[/B] 14.25 g [B]Axis:[/B] 0 [B]OBV:[/B] Ptolemy I head facing right, wearing diadem and scaly aegis tied by snakes. Dotted border. [B]REV:[/B] Εagle on thunderbolt facing left, wings closed. In left field a large single cornucopia twisting to left. To left: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ; to right ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ. Dotted border. [B]Refs:[/B] LORBER: CPE-0732; Sv-1001, pl xxx, 9-11 [19 listed]; SNG Copenhagen 167-168 (COP-167, same obv die); Sear-7806; BMC 06.054, #083 [B]PEDIGREE:[/B] EH 96 The Iraq Al-Amir Hoard, 1993 (CH 9.497, 10.268), #72C. Same dies as #71. See ANS 1935.117.1092 (same dies); COP-167, same obv die. Same obv die as P-2020-06-21.001. From Lorber (CPE): "An unpublished die study of the Alexandrian cornucopiae tetradrachms by V. van Driessche identified only ten obverse dies, implying a compact emission surely struck in connection with the Third Syrian War. Possibly the entire issue can be associated with the early stages of the war." - Broucheion[/QUOTE]
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