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Hi all, Maybe the obverse of a two part button? - Broucheion

Hi All, It's a new category: the notorious provenance. I'm sure there will always be someone to buy it. Witness https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/18/adolf-hitler-telephone-auction-second-world-war https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/20/hitlers-phone-sold-for-almost-250k-at-us-auction.html - Broucheion

Hi All, A small gem. BERENIKE II (UNDER PTOLEMY III: 246-222 BCE) UNCERTAIN MINT 32: PERHAPS SELEUCIA IN PIERIA, ca the Third Syrian War Tetartai (Gold 1/16th Mnaieon = Hemidrachm) Size: 10 mm Weight: 1.6 g Axis: 11:00 Dies: O09/R13 Broucheion Collection P-1994-11-29.001 Obv: Berenike, veiled bust facing right wearing diademed stephane and lotus scepter of Arsinoe Philadelphus. Dotted border. Rev: Single cornucopia tied with a filleted diadem. On left: [ΒΑΣΙΛΗΣ]ΣΗΣ, on right: ΒΕΡΕΝΑΚΗ[Σ]. Dotted border not visible. Refs: CPE-806; Svoronos 983, pl xxxv, 15-16 [5 listed]. Sng Copenhagen-170 for type (silver trihemiobol); BMC 06.060, #015; Sear-7831. Note: Sewell-Lasiter die study (2020) dies O09/R13, also showing globules. Only sixteen examples noted by van Driessche (van Driessche 983). Prov: George Beach, Auction #22 (1994) Lot #3 From CPE-806 entry: "The small gold coins of this issue confuse or deliberately blend the iconography of Berenice II with that of Arsinoe Philadelphus, portraying the younger queen with the stephane and lotus scepter of her predecessor. A similar mixing of the two queens’ attributes can be observed on the mnaieia of Uncertain Mint 33 (CPE 809-811), and details of the diadems binding their cornuacopiae were exchanged at Alexandria early in the reign (see CPE 733-734). On the first of the tetartai, CPE 806, the queen's name and title are transposed from their usual positions, as on the gold eighth mnaieion of Ptolemy III (CPE 805), on a tetradrachm portraying Ptolemy III (CPE 781), and on the reverse of bronzes of Berenice II from Heraclea by the Sea or Seleucia in Pieria (CPE B452-B459). On the gold fractions and on the bronzes the diadem tied round the cornucopiae is rendered in similar fashion. As noted above, CPE 805 & 806 are probably companion pieces, perhaps struck at Seleucia in Pieria soon after its surrender to Ptolemy III. In contrast, CPE 807 displays the straight diadem ends and legend configuration characteristic of the Alexandrian coinage of Berenice, as well as a control letter. These differences may reflect a later correction of the anomalies of CPE 806. The tetarte, defined as one-sixteenth of the mnaieion, had been struck previously at Alexandria under Ptolemy I as one of the novel denominations of his currency reform of 294 (see CPE 129, 134, 139, 144, 149, 155, 172). It failed to establish itself as an essential denomination of the Ptolemaic currency system and is attested mainly as a unit of weight used in connection with jewelry. Its revival at the beginning of Euergetes’ reign seems to reflect the same innovative tendency as the revival of the Attic standard in Egypt for the coinage of Berenice II." - Broucheion

Hi All, Since eclipses concern Helios and Selene (the Sun and Moon), here they are on a Julia Mamea Drachm of Alexandria Egypt. Sold to me as a "19th century imitation of a Matidia Drachm of Egypt or an imitation Paduan Æ." JULIA MAMEA (223 - MAR 235 CE, Under Severus Alexander) ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT Year 10 (230/231 CE) Æ Drachm Size: 32 mm Weight: 21.2 g Axis: 00:00 Broucheion Collection R-1999-09-14.001 Obv: Julia Mamea bust facing right. Legend: IOYMAMAI[AC]Є[B]MHTCЄB[KCTPA]. Border not visible Rev: Helios and Selene busts facing right. Helios with radiate crown and aegis, Selene with crescent moon tiara. Palm frond in right field; in left field: LI. Border not visible. Refs: Emmett-3248.10 (R5); Milne-3038; Geissen-1880 var: reverse; Dattari-4553? (Bad image); Otherwise unlisted. See Geissen-1880 for similar reverse of Antoninus Pius (Year unreadable). - Broucheion

Hi @Amarmur, Also see RPC Online: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/2391 - Broucheion

Hi All, My largest, from a few years back. Sorry for the photo quality. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/savior-but-for-whom.348734/page-2#post-3883369 - Broucheion

Hi All, Just a thought ... - Broucheion

Hi All, PTOLEMY VI PHILOMETOR (FIRST SOLE REIGN 180-170 BCE) UNCERTAIN MINT: GREECE, ARSINOE-METHANA?, before 169 BCE Unknown Æ Denomination Size: 19 mm Weight: 5.77 g Die Axis: 11:30 Broucheion Collection P-2002-01-18.002 Obv: Ptolemy VI youthful portrait head facing right. Countermark: KPA monogram in rectangle. Dotted border not visible. Centration depression. Rev: Eagle on thunderbolt facing left, wings open, head turned towards right. In left field: dolphin entwined on a rod (or anchor?). Legend: [ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ] and dotted border not visible. Centration depression. Refs: CPE-II B0654 temp; Svoronos 1487 [1 listed, Berlin]; Svoronos 1488, pl xlviii, 21-23 (with countermark) [5 listed]. Note 1: Countermark (on obverse): KPA monogram in rectangular punch. Note 2 From CC Lorber "The Royal portrait on Ptolemaic coinage", (EUROS, 2014) : "Somewhat better attested is a royal portrait bronze of Ptolemy VI, showing the king as a child or young adolescent, without divine attributes. The reverse features the standard Ptolemaic eagle accompanied by a dolphin symbol in the left field. This issue often bears a countermark on the obverse, in the form of a monogram involving the letters KPA. Poole attributed the coin emission to a coastal town of Coele Syria and Phoenicia and the countermark to Cyprus. Svoronos associated the bronze with the portrait tetradrachm of Ptolemy VI struck at Ptolemais near the end of his reign (Svoronos 1486), despite the evident disparity in the age of the king in the two portraits. Rejecting an association of the tetradrachm and the bronze, Kyrieleis opined that the neck truncation of the bronze shows Seleucid influence, which would imply an origin in Coele Syria and Phoenicia in the last five years of Philometor's reign. Hazzard tentatively proposed a Cypriot mint and dated the portrait bronze to Philometor's second sole reign. Frank L. Kovacs reported a specimen from a Thessalian hoard containing mainly bronzes of the Thessalian Confederacy and suggested that the countermark could stand for Crannon, or alternatively for a moneyer of the confederacy who signed with a very similar monogram. Once again we encounter a provenance that implies a Greek mint, and once again the only candidate for a royal issue is Arsinoe-Methana." Next: More dolphins - Broucheion

Hi @Amarmur, Per Lorber it’s CPE-222 = Svoronos 362, pl. xi, 8 [8 listed]. Ptolemy I, minted sometime after 294 BCE. Uncertain Mint 9 on Cyprus (Salamis or Citium). - Broucheion

Hi @robinjojo, From today's eBay. Slabbing would be more than the button's worth. - Broucheion

Hi All, After hearing the talk, I tried to add my overstikes, some of which were posted to CT a while back. See https://www.cointalk.com/threads/follow-the-coin-theme-game-ancient-edition-post-‘em-if-you-got-‘em.300099/page-291#post-4606075 as just one example from my collection. That one is noted in CPE volume 1. That's when I too noticed there is no way to contact the database owners to add to the body of knowledge. - Broucheion

Hi All, Link: Thunderbolt. PTOLEMY V EPIPHANES (205/204-180 BCE) CYPRUS, PAPHOS, probably after c 198 BCE AE Chalkous Size: 10x11 mm Weight: 0.95 g Die Axis: 12:30 Broucheion Collection P-2014-09-21.001 Obv: Thunderbolt with wings. No centration depression. Dotted border. Rev: Εagle on thunderbolt facing left, wings closed, no cornucopia on shoulder; inscription ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ. No centration depression. Refs: Lorber CPE-B606 temp; Svoronos-1246, pl xl, 28 [2 listed]; BMC UNLISTED in Vol 6. Notes: Attribution of this variety to Ptolemy V is based on the thunderbolt, a type employed on the reverse of tetradrachms announcing his assumption of the epithet Epiphanes in 199/198 BCE. - Broucheion

Hi All, Obv: Ptolemy I head facing right, wearing diadem. Plain border. Rev: Εagle on thunderbolt facing left, wings spread. In left field: four-letter legend YHDH in Aramaic script. Plain border. Refs: Gitler & Lorber, Group 7, #16 [129 listed]; TJC 32. From Lorber CPE-I: "Ths issue of silver fractions of Judah reflect the introduction of Ptolemy's portrait to the silver coinage Alexandria. H Gitler & C Lorber (2006) proposed a relative chronology based on die axes, relying on the hypothesis that the Jerusalem mint progressed gradually from loose dies to fixed dies. According to their classification, CPE 254, with the legend YHDH, represents the latest coinage because its die axes are overwhelmingly vertical. A die study by J-P Fontanille found obverse links between Ptolemy/eagle quarter obols with the legend forms YHD and YHDH which suggests that the latter may have appeared earlier than assumed by Gitler & Lorber. Alternatively, CPE 252 may have been revived for a time under Ptolemy II." Next: A coin of Jerusalem - Broucheion

Hi All, The Table of Contents is on Academia.edu at https://www.academia.edu/2503261/M_10_G_Depeyrot_Le_numéraire_mérovingien_lâge_de_lor_I_Introduction_1998_200_p_ISBN_90_74623_15_8 - Broucheion

Hi @Julius Germanicus, Viator cave. - Broucheion