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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 3908934, member: 104887&quot;][ATTACH=full]1030224[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>OBV:</b> Zeus head, laureate, facing right. No centration depression. Dotted border not visible.</p><p><b>REV:</b> Eagle on thunderbolt, facing left, wings open. In left field: ΠΑ monogram within circular Egyptian cartouche. Legend: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ - ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ. No centration depression. Dotted border not visible.</p><p><b>Size:</b>23x24mm</p><p><b>Weight:</b> 12.42g</p><p><b>Axis:</b> 00:00</p><p><b>Refs:</b> <b>Lorber Unlisted.</b> This is a new denomination and so should be listed after CPE-B102; Sv-UNLISTED; SNG Cop-UNLISTED; BMC-UNLISTED.</p><p><br /></p><p>The known bronze varieties from this series (CPE B-103 &amp; B-104) have variable die axes that imply a non-Alexandrian origin. This anomalous die orientation and the unusual control convention of B104 suggest that these issues were struck by a new mint, or by a mint outside the network of regular Ptolemaic mints. For CPE-B0104 see Oren Tal (<i>A Late Fourth/Early Third Century BC Farmstead at Holot Rishon Le-Zion (South), Israel: Evidence for an Unrecorded Military Clash in the Southern Levant?</i>). The coins recorded for this dig were excavated under controlled archaeological conditions. Based on the coin finds Tal dates the abandonment of the site to the last years Ptolemy I or the early years of Ptolemy II (~280-270s BCE).</p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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