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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 4062144, member: 75525&quot;]I picked up an interesting, small, coin at NYINC. It is one I have watched for a while, and finally bought one. I like it because it has a scale (!), a Ram (my wife likes to knit and you can see fluffy stuff on this one) and because at one time it was considered the first bronze Egyptian coin.</p><blockquote><p><i>“This extremely rare issue of Nektanebo II is probably the earliest bronze coin of Egypt.” </i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Freeman &amp; Sear Mail Bid Sale 14; lot 285; 6/21/07</i></p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>[ATTACH=full]1062979[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1062980[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Current thinking puts the coin elsewhere. More recent CNG auctions have used the following description.</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><i>Nekht-her-hebet, or Nektanebo II as he was known to the Greeks, was the nephew of Pharaoh Tachos (Djed-her). Placed in command of the Egyptian army in Syria during the Satrapal Revolt, he turned his troops against his own king and took Egypt by force. In 351-350 BC he repelled a Persian invasion but was driven from his throne in 344-343 BC by a second assault. He fled Egypt, found refuge in Ethiopia, and retained control of Upper Egypt for another few years. After conquering Egypt, Alexander sought to connect himself with Nektanebo, allowing the rumor that he was in fact his son to spread. Alexander’s connection to the pharaoh lasted, and for years the sarcophagus of Nektanebo II, now in the British Museum, was considered to be Alexander’s own.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>While the attribution to Nektanebo is still followed by most, the scholarly tide seems to be slowly turning. For one, finds of the coins have been noted outside of Egypt. Secondly, the leaping ram imagery is very Antiochene in nature and Kevin Butcher, in Coinage of Roman Syria (2004), assigns them to an uncertain mint in Northern Syria, suggesting the 3rd century AD as possible date.</i></p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>Pardon me if I plead ignorance and call it the first coin from Egypt. My description:</p><blockquote><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>PHARAONIC EGYPT. Nektanebo II (ca. 360-ca. 343 BC). Æ </p><p>Obv - Ram springing left, head reverted, dotted border</p><p>Rev - Scales, dotted border. </p><p>15 mm (or about the thickness,13 mm, of a cast As from the show)</p><p>3.33 grams </p><p>11 </p><p>This issue of Nektanebo II is probably the earliest bronze coin of Egypt. Nektanebo, nephew of the pharaoh Teos, revolted against his uncle and became the last native Egyptian pharaoh. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]1062988[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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