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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2945448, member: 76194&quot;]<b><font size="5"><span style="color: #ff0000">Merry Christmas everyone!</span></font></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]718154[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]GYXC2GKCwTU[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>And to celebrate Christmas I have a special coin to share with you all. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> #2 of my top 20-something list.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today I have a coin featuring what can only be described as the ancient equivalent of hillbillies. Incest gallore and other weirdness. So without further delay, give it up for the hillbillies....</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]718149[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>No, no! Wrong hillbillies. I&#039;m not talking about the lovable Hollywood version of the hillbillies. I&#039;m referring to...</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>#2: The Alexandrian Hillbillies</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The protagonist of this story, Ptolemy IX, started his reign by jointly ruling with his mother Cleopatra III. Whether this made his mother his &quot;wife&quot; I won&#039;t even bother asking...some things are better not asked.</p><p><br /></p><p>At some point Prolemy IX married his sister, Cleopatra IV, but their mother appears to have gotten jealous of the brother-sister love (yuck <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie96" alt=":vomit:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> )and kicked her out. And like any sensible Egyptian queen, she then married her son to his younger sister, CleopatraSelene, whom no doubt being younger was easier to control. However, mom soon got tired of them and deposed them in favor of her youngest son, Ptolemy X. But I guess incest with Ptolemy X was not it was all cracked out to be, so mother did away with him and reinstated Ptolemy IX back as her co-ruler.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then Ptolemy X got jealous and killed their mother, and was then killed by Ptolemy IX. These late Ptolemies were definitely a pale imitation of the great Ptolemy I.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]718150[/ATTACH]</p><p>PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Cleopatra III &amp; Ptolemy IX Soter II (Lathyros). 116-107 BC.AR Tetradrachm, 25mm, 13.7g, 12h; Alexandreia mint. Dated RY 8 (110/9 BC).</p><p>Obv.: Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis.</p><p>Rev.: ΠΤΟΛEMAIOY- BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ; Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, with wings closed; LH (date) to left, ΠA to right.</p><p>Reference: Svoronos 1669; SNG Copenhagen 352.</p><p><i>From the Aethelred Collection.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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