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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 4847616, member: 104887&quot;]Hi All,</p><p><br /></p><p>Ptolemaic gold is usually large and largely expensive. However, there are a few early small pieces that fit the title of this thread. If you are ok with slightly mushy, or ex-jewelry pieces you can get them for between US$ 500-600 at the lowest end (a bit grubby or a really good bargain) to just under $1000 for VF. Here are three that fit these criteria.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1170445[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1170446[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1170447[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Some more info on these from Lorber&#039;s CPE: The final currency reform of Ptolemy I introduced new designs for the precious metal coinage, Ptolemy’s portrait on the obverse and an eagle on thunderbolt on the reverse. These small gold pieces may represent the tetarte, a unit defined as one quarter of a gold stater or one sixteenth of the mnaieion according to a metrological text of the third - fourth century AD, P Oxy XLIX 3455, ll. 28-29. The tetarte was the preferred unit for measuring gold objects in Graeco-Roman Egypt. H Cuvigny (2003, p 117) considered it to be a theoretical unit only, but she calculated a weight of 1.73g (based on the weight of the mnaieion) which is identical to the weight of the smallest gold coin of Ptolemy I. This weight is very slightly less than one tenth of the trichryson and slightly less than one quarter of the gold stater of the previous coinage. The silver equivalence of these small coins is also slightly imprecise, as one sixteenth of the mnaieion is 6.25 silver drachms rather than 6.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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