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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 7395906, member: 99456&quot;]Thanks, [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER] - reading Wolf, I am not surprised at my difficulties distinguishing.</p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">&quot;even experts cannot tell them apart when they are mixed together in groups. If experts cannot distinguish them and if their sizes and weight ranges overlap, then it isn&#039;t really clear how to distinguish between them except for those at the extremes of the size and weight ranges.&quot;</font></p><p><font size="3">-<a href="http://ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy_series.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy_series.html" rel="nofollow">Wolf, Ptolemaic Bronze Denomination</a></font></p><p><br /></p><p>I will spend a bit more time on the Wolf site to convince myself - but it does sound like 7C &amp; 1235 is a better label...I have another of these coins with a much different color metal and a portrait that looks quite different to me as well.&nbsp;&nbsp; Looking over the <a href="https://archive.org/details/tanomismatatoukrv1v2sbor/page/202/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/tanomismatatoukrv1v2sbor/page/202/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">full list of weights from Svoronos listed coins</a>, there is quite a range, but I still think it falls in the lower end.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286754[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt, temp. Ptolemy VI–VIII, circa 180-116 BC,</b> AE (25-28mm, 15.82vg, 11h), Alexandria mint, Series 7c</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Head of Isis right, wearing wreath of grain ears, and her hair in long curls</p><p><b>Rev: </b>ΠTOΛEMAIOY-BAΣIΛEΩΣ, eagle with open wings standing left on thunderbolt</p><p><b>Ref: </b><a href="https://www.coin.com/images/dr/svoronos/svc001p173t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coin.com/images/dr/svoronos/svc001p173t.html" rel="nofollow">Svoronos 1235</a>; <a href="http://www.ptolemaic.net/SecondCenturyBC/pdfs/Faucher-Lorber-AJN-2010.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ptolemaic.net/SecondCenturyBC/pdfs/Faucher-Lorber-AJN-2010.pdf" rel="nofollow">Faucher &amp; Lorber Series7c</a>; SNG Copenhagen 247–8</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks, Al, at least on your nice example I can see a horn more clearly than I can on my example.&nbsp; I am wondering if there is a mix on coins of the Ptolemies or all Zeus Ammon...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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