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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silphium Addict, post: 8113170, member: 116882&quot;]Great Ptolemaic coins!</p><p>[USER=44210]@ValiantKnight[/USER] I like the early Ptolemy I AEs similar to your #1.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s two of my early Ptolemy I AEs from Kyrenaika when he consolidated control after the 305-300 revolt and put his name or portrait on the coins:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411685[/ATTACH]</p><p>Kyrene, Ptolemy I 300-282 BC</p><p>AE hemiobol 3.15 gm, 16 mm</p><p>O: laureate head Apollo right</p><p>R: eagle standing left on thunderbolt, wings spread, ΦΑ monogram upper left, silphium plant lower left, PTOLMAI[OY] to right</p><p>BMC 5c(XXVIII:12A); Asolati 38C (this coin illustrated); CPE B144</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411698[/ATTACH]</p><p>Kyrene, Ptolemy I 300-294 BC</p><p>AE hemiobol 4.3 gm, 16 mm</p><p>O: diademed head Ptolemy right</p><p>R: eagle standing right, wings spread; KAE and IΓKP monograms upper right; silphium plant &amp; crab lower right</p><p>BMC5e(XXVIII:18B); Asolati 39b; Lorber B145</p><p>ex-Boston MFA 17.3380</p><p><br /></p><p>The latter coin shares a monogram with Kyrene AV staters and AR didrachms[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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