Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silphium Addict, post: 26101653, member: 116882&quot;]You posted this last year with the same photos:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-is-this.413377/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-is-this.413377/">What is this? | Coin Talk</a></p><p><br /></p><p>At the time, I sent you this message:</p><p><i>This Polyrrhenia drachm die type is very rare with only 11 recorded examples, most overstruck on coins of Kyrene.</i></p><p><i>This is an electrotype of BMC Crete Polyrhenium 9. Here is the original in the British Museum:</i> <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_RPK-p23C-1-Pol" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_RPK-p23C-1-Pol" rel="nofollow">https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_RPK-p23C-1-Pol</a></p><p><i>You can see the same edge defects on obverse (bull’s head) at 12, 1, 3 and 6 o’clock; reverse (spear head) raised edge rim from 9 to 2 o’clock, the same field blemishes on both sides and even the residual silphium plant axillary umbel (</i>from the overstruck Kyrene coin<i>) on the reverse from the letter P onto the spearhead shaft!</i></p><p><i>The British museum had electrotypes made of many coins in their collection, but I have not seen this one before. </i></p><p><br /></p><p>I have read more about the Ready electrotypes. I still have not found this specific one, but apparently thousands of electrotypes were made by the Ready family. Here is a summary about Robert Ready and his sons who made the electrotypes:</p><p><a href="https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/13517" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/13517" rel="nofollow">Robert Ready &amp; Sons, London, Electrotypists</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Did you or your friend check the weight and examine the edge for the letters or seam?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in