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Hi @Julius Germanicus, Viator cave. - Broucheion

Hi All, Just to close the circle, I found that the tetradrachm was pictured with an eBay watermark and described as "The item "PTOLEMY IV & Arsinoe 219BC Ascalon Silver Greek Tetradrachm NGC ChXF Fine Style" is in sale since Thursday, March 21, 2019. This item is in the category "Coins & Paper Money\Coins\ Ancient\Greek (450 BC-100 AD)". The seller is "victoram" and is located in Forest Hills, New York." [NB: victorram is Sergey Nechayev Ancient Coins.] https://tetradrachmancientsilver.com/en/ptolemy_iv_arsinoe_219bc_ascalon_silver_greek_tetradrachm_ngc_chxf_fine_style.html#PTOLEMY%20IV%20&%20Arsinoe%20219BC%20Ascalon%20Silver%20Greek%20Tetradrachm%20NGC%20ChXF%20Fine%20Style The coin was also featured on Nechayev's vCoins site (I assume at the same time as eBay), but that seller is no longer active there so his store was removed. The Internet Archive didn't capture that page so only my PDF capture is proof it was also displayed there. My next task is to find the sale that got the coin to Moussaieff. The History I have after Mossaieff's death is: ∎ The New York Sale Auction 45 (8 Jan 2019 at NYINC) ∎ Gorny & Mosch Auction 261, Lot 437 (4 Mar 2019) ∎ eBay (victorram) & vCoins (Sergey Nechayev Ancient Coins) - 21 Mar 2019 ∎ Nomos Auction 21, Lot 267 (21 Nov 2020) - Broucheion

Hi All, Seen on X (nee Twitter). - Broucheion

Hi @Curtis JJ, I have a coin from the Moussaief collection but I have not confirmed it yet. Which coin catalog(s) should I be looking at? The coin was bought from Nomos and posted at CT ( here ) in 2020. The history before that gives the Mousaief background (https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=cpe+941&category=1-2&lot=&date_from=&date_to=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0) . [Edit to add that it was also Ex New York Sale 48 (12-14 Jan 2020), Lot #160 (unsold)]

Hi All, Mine was posted on the other list a few years back. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/enough.368271/#post-4943175 - Broucheion

Hi All, Link: Cleopatra Thea & Grypus CLEOPATRA THEA & ANTIOCHUS VIII GRYPUS (COREGENCY: 125-121 BCE) UNCERTAIN MINT 115: PROB NORTHERN SYRIA: DAMASCUS? 122-121 BCE (?) Æ Denomination B Size: 21 mm Weight: 9.28 g Die Axis: 12:30 Broucheion Collection S-2008-01-12.001 Obv: Jugate busts facing right: Cleopatra Thea, vieled, diademmed and weearing stephane, with Antiochus VIII, diademmed. No legend. Dotted border. Rev: Nike standing, facing left holding wreath. Legend in four lines: ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗΣ ΚΛΕΟΠΑΤΡΑΣ ΘΕΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ. In lower left field: palm branch. Plain border. Refs: a) SNG Israel-2467-2469; b) Babelon 1365; BMC 01 8; c) Babelon 1364; d) Babalon 1362-1363; Houghton 586 var (monogram); HGC 9, 1190;CSE Coll A Houghton pt II-0715 var (monogram). An example of this type is known to have been overstruck by Tigranes II, whose overstrikes are mostly over issues of Damascus. Usual commercial sources are: Lebanon & Jerusalem. Provenance: Ex-Arthur Houghton Collection. Sold by him on eBay. Notes: From CSE Coll A Houghton pt II: "Cleopatra Thea initially seized power in her own name in 125, but later in the same year she raised her teenaged son Antiochus VIII to be her co-ruler after slaying Antiochus' elder brother Seleucus when he attempted to succeed Demetrius II as sole Seleucid monarch. With military support from Ptolemy VIII Euergetes, who had become disenchanted with his creature, Alexander II Zabinas, Cleopatra Thea and Antiochus VIII crushed the pretender in 122. This victory expanded the authority from their base at Ptolemais (Ake) to include some parts of Phoenicia and Coele Syria, Syria Seleucis, and Cilicia. However, the relationship between mother and son was strained and ended in violence when Cleopatra was forced to drink poison. It is said that she had initially prepared the deadly cup for her son, but it is just as possible that Antiochus VIII killed her for reasons other than self-defence. He is known to have had a keen interest in poisons, which he occasionally expressed in poetry." - Broucheion

Hi @DonnaML & @Curtis JJ, Yet another piece of the Dattari puzzle is discussed in the volume "Passionate Curiosities: Tales of Collectors & Collections from the Kelsey Museum" by Lauren E. Talalay & Margaret Cool Root (Kelsey Museum Publication 13 [2015]). It discusses the Kelsey's collections and is available here. Here is an extended quote with the only illustrated Dattari coin, but I could not find that coin in the 2007 Dattari-Savio catalog. The Dattari Collection Nearly twenty years after the accumulated Richards gifts were officially accepted by the University, Ann Arbor received another numismatic windfall. On July 20, 1909, Francis Kelsey had a cablegram from his friend Freer (chapter three), who was in Egypt at the time. The message asked if Kelsey would be willing to accept a gift of several thousand coins from a gentleman in Cairo. This gentleman was Giovanni Dattari, a well-known collector and numismatist who was a long-time resident of Cairo — first employed at the offices of the Thomas Cook & Son’s travel agency and later serving as a provisioner to the colonial British Army. Professor Kelsey was most enthusiastic about the potential offer. In due course, the University formally accepted Dattari’s collection. The gold, silver, and bronze coins date mainly from the founding of Alexandria, Egypt, in 332 BCE to the middle of the 4th century CE. That Dattari chose to donate this valuable corpus to the University of Michigan is noteworthy (fig. 7.25a–b). Unlike many of the other scenarios of acquisition in these early years, Dattari had no connection to the state of Michigan, to its University, or to Professor Kelsey personally. Correspondence between Freer and Dattari suggests that, although the latter felt compelled to sell a good deal of his antiquities for financial reasons, he had an overriding interest in donating the coins specifically to a university that would use them in teaching and research. Ten days after Freer sent the cable to Kelsey urging him to consider Dattari’s gift offer, Freer himself purchased 1,388 glass objects from the Italian collector for 2,500 pounds sterling. Could the extraordinarily wealthy (and civic-minded) Mr. Freer have paid this princely sum to Dattari for the glass artifacts in order to make more palatable Dattari’s donation of his coins to Michigan? - Broucheion [Edited after posting: P.S., it looks like there are 3099 Dattari coins (?!?) that are searchable but not illustrated via the link below] https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey?q1=Dattari, Giannino;rgn1=kelsey_lot;select1=phrase;size=50;sort=kelsey_dimhgt;type=boolean;view=reslist;start=2751

Hi All, A short report of new coins found in Crete reported online at Greek Reporter https://greekreporter.com/2024/01/23/gold-coins-alexander-the-great-crete/ . Article photos below. - Broucheion

Hi All, Here is one of the last few coins I got in 2023. It is what would be an otherwise unremarkable Alexandrian Byzantine issue of Heraclius and his two sons (obv) and I+B over the mint name AΛEZ (rev). However, what makes this one remarkable is the countermark on the reverse. It is a circular punch that shows a monogram set in a cross. I can make out the letters: ABIΛMOTPY. Some of these (the I and T and Λ) are components within other letters. I didn't find this exact monogram combination in Fiend's two books ("Byzantyne Monograms and Personal Names" and "Byzantinische Siegelkunde"; See https://independent.academia.edu/RobertFeind ), but it is similar to the ones for Amibilios, Jamblichos, or Amibilios on page 65 of the first book. Any thoughts on this coin or countermarked Alexandrians or any similar Alexandrian Byzantine issues you have to show are welcomed! HERACLIUS (5 Oct 610 - 11 Jan 641 CE) EGYPT, ALEXANDRIA Undated: ca 5 Oct 610 - 11 Jan 641 CE Æ 12 Nummi Size: 21 mm Weight: 8.36 g Axis: 04:00 Broucheion Collection B-2023-11-23.001 Obv: Heraclius (center), Herculius Constantine (right), and Heraclonus (left) all standing facing, each wears chlamys and holds globus cruciger in right hand. Heraclonas and Heraclius Constantine each wear crown with cross. Cross in fie!d above head of Heraclonas. Solid border. Rev: Large IB, with cross over M between. In exergue: AΛEZ. Countermark. Solid border. Refs: MIB III-206; BMC-297; Sear-861; DO-196; T-440. Note: Reverse countermark made up of ABIΛMOTPY set in a cross. - Broucheion

Hi @Al Kowsky, Great coins but a slip of the 'pen' I think. That would be Ptolemy Philadelphos or Ptolemy VI, not Philip. - Broucheion

Thank you @shanxi and @ambr0zie, You both nailed it! I would never have guessed in a million years. It goes to show what knowledgeable members are here on Numis Forums. - Broucheion

Hi All, This coin was part of a group lot I am finally getting around to cataloging. I think this coin might be from Asia Minor but I can't read the reverse legend. Any help or hints would be welcomed. Thanks, - Broucheion

Hi All, Isn’t that what the emoji means? - Broucheion

Hi All, Details at https://greekreporter.com/2024/01/10/rare-coins-treasures-discovered-ancient-city-tenea-greece/?utm_content=278243633&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-142691943 - Broucheion

Hi All, Collecting coins was always known as "the hobby of kings". - Broucheion

Hi All, NERO (12 Oct 54 - 9 Jun 68 CE) ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT Year 11 (064/065 CE) Bi Tetradrachm Size: 24x25 mm Weight: 10.90 g Axis: 00:00 Broucheion Collection R-1995-11-21.001 Obv: Nero head wearing radiate crown and diadem, facing right. Steps hairstyle. Legend: NEPΩNKΛAY - [KAIΣΣEB ΓΕΡΜAV]. Border not visible. Rev: Poppea portrait bust facing right, hair tied behind head. Above is legend: ΠOΠΠAIAΣEBAΣTH. Date LIA in right field. Refs: Emmett-128.11; Geissen-168; Dattari-197 to 198, pl i; RPC I-5282; Milne-223 to 225; Curtis-143 to 148 see illus 5 & 8; Frankfurt am Main-119 to 121; SNG Copenhagen-117; BMC-124 to125; see Vogt I 26f/31f; Vogt-II 10; Bern-18 to 19, pl I; Sadek-134 Notes: 1. Poppaea Sabina was married to Nero in 62 CE as his second wife. She had been married twice before, firstly to Rufus Crispinus and then to the future emperor Otho. She died from the effects of an accidental kick by Nero in 65 CE. 2. According to JW Curtis, Poppaea does not appear as sole type on any other coins of the Roman Empire. - Broucheion

Hi All, I posted this on CT a while back. Copper French Napoleonic Medal - Br 1348. Plain edge, original strike. 41 mm By Andrieu Bramsen #1348 1814: The victories of February 1814; Laskey #135 Obverse: Head of Napoleon, laureate. NAPOLEON EMP. ET ROI. Reverse: FEVRIER MDCCCXIV. An eagle perched on a thunderbolt, facing left, a star above his head. In the left field a pair of fish; in the right a flying Victory holding out a wreath. Signed beneath the thunderbolt, BRENET F., DENON D This medal celebrates the February successes Napoleon had against the invading armies; the fish are, of course, the zodiacal sign of Pisces. Encouraged by his success, Napoleon rejected offers of the allies to leave him in possession of France and continued fighting. March was disastrous. Napoleon sent a message to his brother Joseph in Paris, telling him to hold on, and explaining that Napoleon was marching east to pick up more troops from the besieged forts there. The message was intercepted; the allies seized the opportunity to attack and occupy Paris. Laskey's 1818 image: - Broucheion

@Restitutor, Please see above. - Broucheion

Hi @Victrix & @Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, That book is part of the bundled ANS NNM file at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038097948&seq=231 - Broucheion

Hi All, Link: Mark Antony, triumvir 43-33 BC CLEOPATRA VII & MARCUS ANTONIUS (44-31/30 BCE) SYRIA, ANTIOCH (?), before Sep 33 BCE, probably ca 34 BCE Ar STATER (TETRADRACHM) Size: 27 mm Weight: 13.9 g Die Axis: 00:00 Broucheion Collection P-1984-03-03.001 Obv: Cleopatra VII diademed and draped portrait bust with earrings and necklaced, facing right. Legend: [ΒΑςΙΛΙςςΑ ΚΛΕΟΠΑΤΡΑ ΘΕ]Α ΝΕ[ωΤΕΡΑ]. Dotted border. Rev: Marcus Antonius bare-headed portrait head facing right. Legend: ΑΝΤωΝΙΟς ΤΡΙΤΟΝ ΤΡΙωΝ ΑΝΔΡωΝ. Dotted border. Refs: RPC I-4094; Svoronos-1897, pl lxiii, 22-23 [64 listed]; SYRIA: CITIES-129; BMC 20. 158, #053, pl xix, 3. Provenance: Ex-Harmer Rooke Galleries Auction #17, Lot #459 (30-Mar-1984) unsold. [Possibly Ex-Knobloch Fixed Price List #29 (Nov 1965).] - Broucheion

Hi @DonnaML, @Curtis JJ, @Curtisimo, The annotations in DonnaML’s book did not end up as new coins in the 1990 expanded edition. In some cases they correspond to the added plates from Empire and the other appended catalogs in that edition. Maybe it was Dennis Kroh but I can’t tell. Here’s the comparable page for Curtis 2115. My annotations refer the the added plates. - Broucheion

Hi @DonnaML, Possibly Emmett or Zack Beasley (Ex Beast Coins, now Heritage Ancient Coins)? - Broucheion

Hi @DonnaML, @Curtis JJ, @Curtisimo, Thank you DonnaML for the information!!! It doesn’t look like Curtis’ writing to me as I have other coins from his collection with holders and have seen a few others for sale online. I’ll look at my Durst reprint expanded edition tomorrow. You have a real prize edition in any case. My book has loads of my own annotations too. I sure do wonder who was the previous owner of your book. - Broucheion

Hi @DonnaML and @Curtis JJ, Here is a Curtis coin with his holder. CONSTANTIUS CHLORUS CEASAR (Under MAXIMIANUS 293 - 305 CE) ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT (OFFICINA A), Year 01 (292/293 CE) Bi Tetradrachm Brouchion Collection Obv: Constantius laureate bust facing right. Legend starting in lower left field: [ΦΛ]AKωCTANTI[OCK]. Dotted border. Rev: Alexandria standing, facing left, head of Serapis in her right hand, long vertical scepter in left. In left field: L; in right field: B. Below: officina A. Dotted border. Refs: Emmett-4169.01; G-3347 var: Officina Δ; DAT-6049 (Not DAT-6033 as Curtis holder shows); M-5089; C-2115 (THIS COIN); BMC-2603 var: No officina; Bern-0410 var: Legend KWNCTANTIOC; Mionnet 3806 var: var: Legend KWNCTANTIOC Provenance: ex Keith Emmett Collection; Ex Olympus, October 1982; Ex Bajocc, #56492, December 1955; Ex-Curtis Collection, with his holder. See https://www.beastcoins.com/Collections/KeithEmmettEgypt/KeithEmmettRomanEgypt.htm [last verified 2023-12-17]. Beast Coins image. - Broucheion

Hi @Phil Anthos, The symbol looks like an Egyptian crown of Isis. Here is one on a later coin of Roman Egypt. I also don’t know about an Alexandrine-Tarantine relationship but @Deinomenid‘s explanation now seems very interesting. Maybe a show of Ptolemaic support via a supply of silver? - Broucheion