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    RIP Roma?

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    Posted · Edited by Broucheion

    50 minutes ago, Bonshaw said:

    It briefly flashed a webpage giving the date, and then switched to "not saved."

    I waited a minute and tried again, and the web page I saved previously was back in the archive again.

    Hi @Bonshaw,

    It sounds like the updated page lives on one of the Archive.org servers but that new page hasn’t yet propagated to update all the servers with the new links. So, as you long in again, sometimes to link to the server with the newest page and sometimes you don’t.

    - Broucheion 

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    Post it and pick it!

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    Posted · Edited by Broucheion

    Hi All,

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    FAUSTINA THE YOUNGER (UNDER ANTONINUS PIUS)
    ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT Year 14 (150/151 CE)

    Æ DRACHMA
    34mm
    16.6grams
    Axis: 00:00
    Broucheion Collection R-xxxx-xx-xx.035

    Obv: Faustina diademmed draped head facing right. Legend: [CE]B ΘYΓ - ΦAVCTINA. Dotted border.
    Rev: Nemesis seated facing right (griffin with left paw on spoked wheel). In left field: [LI]; In right field: Δ. Dotted border not visible.
    Refs: Emmett-1986.14; Geissen-1957; Dattari-3318 var
    Prov: Ex-Antioch Associates

    Next: Any Alexandrian bronze.

    - Broucheion

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    Just How Rare Is A Coin? A Case Of Serpent Drawn Biga

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    Posted

    19 hours ago, Furryfrog02 said:

    Does this constitute it being rare? Or is it because it is rather obscure, nobody really tracks it?

    Hi @Furryfrog02,

    in my collecting experience I would call your coin “scarce.” I once had a dealer say that rarity was a relative term because “there are only 3 known specimens of that coin, but the two people who collect that issue already had one.” He wasn’t trying to be funny.

    - Broucheion 

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    The Story of Quietus

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    Posted · Edited by Broucheion

    Hi All,

    Let's not forget Alexandria.

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    QUIETUS (ca Sep 260 - ca Jun 261 CE)
    ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT Year 01 (ca Sep 260 - ca Jun 261 CE)
    Bi Tetradrachm
    Broucheion Collection

    Obv: Quietus laureate cuirased bust seen from behind, facing right. Legend:
    AKTΦIOVNKOYHTOCЄCЄB. Dotted border.
    Rev: Eagle wings open standing facing left with wreath in beak. In left field: LA. Dotted border.
    Refs: Emmett-3788.01; Geissen 3013-14; Dattari-5382; Milne-4057/4058; Curtis-1566; SNG Copenhagen-832; BMC-2305 var (legend); Mionnet-3407-9; Bern-247, pl vii
    Provenance: Ex Steven M Huston (1996 List 60, Lot# 50); Ex R.S. Speck Collection.

    - Broucheion

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    Gold prices hit new record high

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    Hi All,

    A small gem.

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    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

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    Eclipse Day Coin

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    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."

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    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

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    Post it and pick it!

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    Posted · Edited by Broucheion

    Hi All,

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    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

     

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    Greek overstrikes database with extensive images.

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    Posted · Edited by 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

     

    Anyone up for a game of coin UNO?

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    Posted · Edited by Broucheion

    Hi All,

    Link: Thunderbolt.

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    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

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    Post it and pick it!

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    Posted · Edited by Broucheion

    Hi All,image.png.623fb5ad7f0d9a82f1e095553174f627.png

    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

     

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