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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 1682903, member: 9204&quot;]I was reminded today that I failed to complete our tour of Egypt. So here are a few more. We begin with Memphis, an extremely important city in Pharaonic Egypt that maintained some of its prosperity into Roman times, as evidenced by this issue. This type is also notable for being the first named lead discovered, thereby demonstrating that these did not all originate in Alexandria.</p><p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/Memphis_5279.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>EGYPT, Memphis</b></p> <p style="text-align: center">PB Tessera (24mm, 5.76 g, 11 h)</p> <p style="text-align: center">Nilus reclining left on hippopotamus, holding cornucopia and reeds, being crowned by Euthenia advancing right</p> <p style="text-align: center">Isis-Hekate triformis standing facing, holding uraeus and resting arm on Apis bull standing left with solar disk between horns; to left, small figure standing right; MEMΦIC to right</p> <p style="text-align: center">Milne 5279; Dattari (Savio) 6419; Köln 3501 </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>The penultimate city on our journey is perhaps the most important. Oxyrhynchus is significant for it&#039;s extremely productive middens, from which have been excavated innumerable ancient papyrus texts. It is perhaps because of this archaeological attention that so many tokens are known in quantity from this location. Though I have not been able to piece out the order or relationships between the types, I suspect that there will be found three or four separate issues in multiple denominations. I show below one of my finest specimens. Six others are illustrated in my gallery.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/oxy2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>EGYPT, Oxyrhynchus </b></p> <p style="text-align: center">PB Tessera (21mm, 10.52 g, 2h)</p> <p style="text-align: center">Draped bust of Athena right, wearing Corinthian helm and aegis</p> <p style="text-align: center">Athena flying left on globe, holding wreath and palm frond over shoulder</p> <p style="text-align: center">Milne 5291; Dattari (Savio) 11817 (same dies); Köln 3509-17 var. (no letters, no globe)</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>We end with a humble piece from Ptolemais Hermiou. </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/Ptolemais_5374.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>EGYPT, Ptolemais Hermiou</b></p> <p style="text-align: center">PB Tessera (16mm, 3.23 g, 9 h)</p> <p style="text-align: center">Head of horse right</p> <p style="text-align: center">Forepart of bull right</p> <p style="text-align: center">Milne 5374-6; Dattari (Savio) 11876-8; Köln -</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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