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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3314277, member: 19463&quot;]Very good!&nbsp; It is the year date from a Ptolemy II tetradrachm year 34 over 33.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]878030[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>#2 is not a countermark and from what is shown could this person or one of four other rulers from that same time.&nbsp; That is why I asked only for the city.</p><p><br /></p><p>maridvnvm has too many interests that match mine so I expected him to get these.&nbsp; He&#039;ll get the ones from my second session, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I found interesting about this one was the dots adding texture to the right side of the A and less clearly to the other letter.&nbsp; I hd never seen them before and am amazed that they are there.&nbsp; Now I need to see other coins of this type and see if they are there as well.&nbsp;&nbsp; I am wondering if this is a sign of an undertype rather than texture on letters???</p><p>[ATTACH=full]878035[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The following two are related but not from the same coin.&nbsp; The first shows one type of what it shows while the other shows both the other type and a smaller unrelated item that is often confused with the larger.&nbsp; These have been discussed here before and also on my webpages. Macro photos are good for technical numismatic trivia.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is on a reverse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]878036[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Clue: This is not the only nose on this obverse.&nbsp; All three of these are three image focus stacks but this last one really needed one closer and another farther to be sharpest. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]878037[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been accused of causing other people to spend money on coins by showing things they did not know they wanted.&nbsp; In this case, I am encouraging you consider a microscope to look at little details on coins.&nbsp; These were taken with a very old single microscope in poor condition.&nbsp; For coins I really suggest the stereoscopic &#039;dissecting&#039; type scopes instead.&nbsp; Some of them have a third tube allowing taking a 2D photo of the scene displayed in 3D by the other two eyepieces.&nbsp; These &#039;trinocular stereo microscopes ate considerably more expensive than the toys like my stereo binocular unit.&nbsp; I probably should look into showing how such scopes would make you safer from fakes but I do not believe that is true.&nbsp; Most signs of fakes can be seen with much lower magnification and what protects from fakes is more common sense than superpower vision.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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