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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 7396017, member: 87809&quot;]Ptolemaic coinage is definitely very confusing, they all look the same to me. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This one I attributed, based on the Daniel Wolf&#039;s project, as Ptolemy III Euergetes, Æ Pentobolon. Can&#039;t remember were I got the denomination Pentobolon from, the project calls it Tetrobol and there is no denomination Pentobolon in the project<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. This ones with the monogram E (or EP)are also according to the project, very plentiful, and&nbsp; among the most common types of Ptolemaic bronzes. So nothing special here except my confusion about the attribution and denomination, please feel free to question my attribution, it is most welcome:</p><p><br /></p><p>37 x 38 mm, 45.52 g</p><p>Alexandria, 246 - 230 BC</p><p>Svoronos&nbsp; 974; Sear 7843; SNG Copenhagen 224 or229; Lorber CPE B371 or 366</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Head of Zeus-Ammon right, wearing ram’s horn and taenia.</p><p>Rev.: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY, eagle standing half left on thunderbolt, wings closed, head r.; cornucopiae decorated with 3 taenia (an ornament for the head attribute of heroes) on left wing; EP (or E) monogram between legs. Border of dots.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1286783[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1286784[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>and this should be a Ptolemy I AE Diobol (can&#039;t see a horn on the obverse)</p><p>27 x 28 mm, 13.891 g</p><p>Alexandria, ca. 304 - 283 BC</p><p>Svoronos 269 - 303; </p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon right</p><p>Rev.: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, Ptolemaic Eagle standing l. on thunderbolt, monogram AP before; there could have been a monogram upper l.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1286788[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1286789[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>and my very confusing Cleopatra, a Half-unit by its weight, but the denomination mark on the reverse looks like a Π and not like an M. At least the obverse doesn&#039;t look too bad<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Her coinage was on the whole poorly struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>21 x 22 mm, 7.457 g</p><p>SNG Copenhagen 422-424; Weiser, Köln, 184-185; Sear, Imperators 949</p><p>Ob.: Diademed and draped Cleopatra bust to r.</p><p>Rev.: ΚΛΕOΠΑΤΡΑΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗΣ; Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopiae to left, Π (???) in right field.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1286794[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1286795[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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