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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3024447, member: 56859&quot;]Nice pickup, Randy!&nbsp; You&#039;re going to crack it out, I assume?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dating Ptolemaic coins-- or even assigning them to a particular emperor-- is difficult and attributions have changed many times.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t been collecting very long and yet have many Ptolemaic coins which have been reassigned since I bought them (and I haven&#039;t updated my website or database <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).&nbsp; Keeping up with current research could be a full time job!</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t see a K on Randy&#039;s coin.&nbsp; If present it should be in the right field of the reverse.&nbsp; Per Svoronos, the club with that monogram above indicates the coin was struck in Tyre circa 267 BCE, Svoronos 644.&nbsp; I do not know if subsequent scholarship has reassigned this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]752625[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]752627[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.coin.com//images/dr/svoronos_book3.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coin.com//images/dr/svoronos_book3.html" rel="nofollow">Svoronos is online on Ed Waddell&#039;s site.</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yours is the same as Randy&#039;s-- Ptolemy II (unless scholarship has changed recently), with obverse depicting Ptolemy I; Svoronos 644.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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