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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 3909004, member: 104887&quot;]<b>[ATTACH=full]1030262[/ATTACH]</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>OBV:</b> Ptolemy I head facing right, wearing diadem and scaly aegis tied by snakes. Dotted border.</p><p><b>REV:</b> Eagle on thunderbolt facing left, wings closed. To left: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ; to right: ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ. In left field KΛ above KPA monogram, above ΩI monogram. Dotted border.</p><p><b>Size:</b> 26x27mm</p><p><b>Weight:</b> 13.4 g</p><p><b>Axis:</b> 11:00</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Refs: Lorber CPE-Unlisted</b> but this would come after CPE-0425 in numbering. Sv-Unlisted; SNG Cop-Unlisted; BMC-Unlisted.</p><p><br /></p><p>A Davesne (Meydancikkale, p 293) tentatively gave the series of which this coin is a part to Paphos. Lorber&#039;s attribution to Uncertain Mint 9 rests in part on the repetition of the primary (upper) control KΛ from the preceding series (see CPE 416) but mainly on the fact that the primary control ΠΤ links the pre- and post-reform coinages of Uncertain Mints 10 and 19. Several controls of the present series occur as secondary controls of Uncertain Mint 10.</p><p><br /></p><p>I note that Ptolemy&#039;s portrait looks a lot like the style of the mint imitating Akko, which is thought to have operated later than the dating of this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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