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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 8471084, member: 104887&quot;]Hi [USER=115629]@marchal steel[/USER],</p><p><br /></p><p>Your tetradrachm is CPE-288 = Svoronos 574, pl. xiii, 11 [11 listed] = SNG Copenhagen 109, a coin of Ptolemy II.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ptolemaic history covers about 300 turbulent years that make up the Hellenistic era.&nbsp; A recent 3-part (very abbreviated) overview of Ptolemaic coinage is presented by Mike Markowitz starting. See</p><p><br /></p><p>Part 1: <a href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-the-ptolemies-part-i/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-the-ptolemies-part-i/" rel="nofollow">https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-the-ptolemies-part-i/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Part 2: <a href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-the-ptolemies-part-ii/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-the-ptolemies-part-ii/" rel="nofollow">https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-the-ptolemies-part-ii/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Part 3: <a href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-the-ptolemies-part-iii/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-the-ptolemies-part-iii/" rel="nofollow">https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-the-ptolemies-part-iii/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The best current resource is Catharine C Lorber’s paper book <i>Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire: Part I, Ptolemy I through Ptolemy IV</i> (2 volumes), New York (2018). However, CPE only covers the first four Ptolemies. The next volumes are still being penned. The American Numismatic Society’s Ptolemaic Coins Online (PCO) database illustrates the ANS’, and a few related institution’s, coins that correspond to the text. See <a href="http://numismatics.org/pco/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/pco/" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/pco/ </a>. This <font size="4">represents the current state of knowledge on this series. For an easy to use resource for the bronze coins only see Dan Wolf’s “The PtolemAE Project” at <a href="http://ptolemybronze.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ptolemybronze.com/" rel="nofollow">http://ptolemybronze.com/</a> with the “Ptolemaic Bronze Coin Denomination Series Page” starting at <a href="http://ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy_series.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy_series.html" rel="nofollow">http://ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy_series.html</a> .</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Another web resource many people still quote for Ptolemaic coins is not the most correct, but it is also free online. See the English translation of Svoronos’ 125-year old catalog “Ta Nomismata tou Kratous ton Ptolemaion (Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire)” at <a href="https://www.coin.com/images/dr/svoronos_book2.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coin.com/images/dr/svoronos_book2.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.coin.com/images/dr/svoronos_book2.html</a> . The table of contents is here <a href="https://www.coin.com/images/dr/svoronos_book3.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coin.com/images/dr/svoronos_book3.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.coin.com/images/dr/svoronos_book3.html</a> .</p><p><br /></p><p>There were about 15 kings and several queens depicted on their coinage. For a detailed genealogy of the rulers see the masterful Egyptian Royal Genealog site at <a href="http://www.instonebrewer.com/TyndaleSites/Egypt/index.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.instonebrewer.com/TyndaleSites/Egypt/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.instonebrewer.com/TyndaleSites/Egypt/index.htm </a>by the late Chris Bennett. It may be jumping into the deep end to start, but ‘there is no royal road’, as Euclid told Ptolemy I. </p><p><br /></p><p>Enjoy!</p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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