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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3071645, member: 19463&quot;]Most ancient collectors use metric u</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an example of what I find hilarious.&nbsp; If standards allow a variance of .19g&nbsp; you may not find it necessary to buy a scale that weighs to that third decimal.&nbsp; When people here ask for a weight, it is usually to separate denominations so one decimal place will do.&nbsp; Most of us buy the $10, 2 decimal ones.&nbsp; Ancient coins were not struck with collars so two coins made within seconds of each other can be 16mm and 18mm without being odd. </p><p><br /></p><p>I can not help with your Ptolemy except to say I am not familiar with one that weighs close to 7g and has no small devices or letters in the reverse fields that will help pin down the ID.&nbsp; There are Ptolemy IV&nbsp; to VI didrachms from Cyprus mint? but I wonder how you came across one.&nbsp; &nbsp; I am not an expert in these so I am not saying it is fake but only that you need more research or help from someone more into Ptolemies than am I.&nbsp; </p><p>Ptolemy I tetradrachm 13.7g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]771897[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Ptolemy X tetradrachm 13.8g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]771898[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Tough love:&nbsp; When you post a photo of a small coin surrounded by a huge blank space, you are saying that your time it would have taken to prepare a cropped version of good size is more valuable than the time it takes us to enlarge the two images.&nbsp; Some of us will take the time; some will pass.&nbsp; Your chances of finding help increase with more people seeing the coin clearly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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