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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 1702078, member: 9204&quot;]<span style="color: #000000">When thinking about Roman-era Egypt, it&#039;s good to remember that the Romans were as chronologically distant from the pharoahs as we today are from the Caesars.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/normal_Arsinoe_tessera.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><b></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><b><br /></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><b>EGYPT, Arsinoe (Krokodilopolis)</b>. 1st-3rd century AD. </span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000">PB Tessera (25mm, 5.65 g, 12 h)</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000">Head of pharoah right, wearing <i>nemes </i>crown; papyrus branch before</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000">ΠΟΛЄωC ΑΡCЄΝΟЄΙΤωΝ (retrograde)</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000">Sobek (crocodile) right on a pedestal, solar disk above; all within laurel wreath tied at the bottom</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000">Milne -; Dattari (Savio) 6423; Köln 3495</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000">Ex Elsen 58 (12 June 1999), lot 1634</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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