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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3622821, member: 19463&quot;]<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></p><p>If we had a nickel for every time this website has been recommended here on CT, we could buy a fake EID MAR denarius.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with CNG.&nbsp; Use the information found on the Ptolemaic Bronze project and ignore sellers who don&#039;t (possibly owning an old book?).&nbsp; The coin in question is listed 3/4 way down the page at the far right of the Ptolemy IX et al listings.&nbsp; Yours is by far the prettiest I have seen to the point I worry about it being too good to be true on eBay.&nbsp; Who sold it on eBay?&nbsp; Later coins tend to be less well made.&nbsp; I see the head as Zeus not Heracles but I am no expert. </p><p><a href="http://www.ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy/gaf015_o.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy/gaf015_o.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy/gaf015_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy/gaf015_r.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy/gaf015_r.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy/gaf015_r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>19.6-21.2mm - 9.2gm - 12h</p><p>Bearded Heracles obverse with K behind head, possibly off flan here</p><p>Omega/Sigma at left, L/Gamma at right - Year 3, 114BC</p><p>Sv 1191</p><p>Ptolemy IX &amp; Cleopatra III</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes it seems we are just wasting our time here.&nbsp; The Ptolemy Bronze site is huge and more detailed than interests me.&nbsp; Read it anyway.</p><p><a href="http://ptolemybronze.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ptolemybronze.com/" rel="nofollow">http://ptolemybronze.com/</a></p><p>The link I gave first in this reply is the first on the home page. There are twenty pages linked below it.&nbsp; Consider looking at them, too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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