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Hi @Sulla80, It's a coin of Ptolemy XII. - Broucheion

Hi @NewStyleKing, It's Ptolemy III, Lorber CPE-B395; SNG Copenhagen 171-172; Koln 71; HistMusFrankfurt 117-119. - Broucheion

Hi All, Septimius from Alexandria. In sad condition but it is rare. SEPTIMIUS SEVERIUS (14 April 193 - 211 CE) ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT Year 04 (195/196 CE) Bi Tetradrachm 22 x 24 mm 9.54 g Axis: 01:00 Broucheion Collection R-2000-03-18.002 OBV: Septimius Severius laureate bust facing right. Legend: [KΛCE]ΠCEYHEY - [ΠE]ΡT[CEBAΡAAΔI]. Dotted border not visible. Dotted border not visible. REV: Eagle on fulman facing right, head turned back to left with wreath held in its mouth. In left field: LΔ. Dotted border. Refs: Emmett-2666.04; Geissen 2269-2270; Dattari-4004var (year position); Milne-2717var (year position); Curtis-891; BMC-1460. Provenance: ex Elsen Auction #61 (18 Mar 2000), Lot #861. Next: A star or thunderbolt as the main symbol on one of the sides. - Broucheion

Hi @David Atherton, That is a wonderful example of that coin. Below is mine, which is more worn and has an illegible date. DOMITIAN (81 - 96 Sep 18 CE) ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT Year 14 (094/095 CE)??? AE Obol Size: 18 mm Weight: 3.93 g Axis: 00:00 Broucheion Collection R-1994-08-06.001 Obv: Domitian laureate head facing left. Legend: [AVTOKKAICA]P - ΔO[MITIANOCЄB]. Dotted border. Rev: Eagle (Roman style) with spreading wings facing front with head turned to left. Date in exurge not visible. Plain border. Refs: Emmett-310 (Year ?); Geissen-0417var Year; Dattari-591var Year 11; RPC II-2688/2716/2735 var: Year. Note: RPC II-2688 (Online) = year 12; RPC II-2716 (Online) = year 14; RPC II-2735 (Online) = year 15 = Geissen-400 - Broucheion

Hi @Nerosmyfavorite68, Keep in mind that the rail workers and postal workers have staged various strike days in November and December. - Broucheion

Hi All, Link ... Gordian. GORDIAN III (Jul 238 - ca Feb 244 CE) ASIA, CONVENTUS OF EPHESUS 238-244 CE (HOMONIA ISSUE WITH ALEXANDRIA) Æ Size: 28 mm Weight: 11.9 g Axis: 06:00 Broucheion Collection RI-1997-02-08.001 Obv: Gordian III draped and laureate bust facing right. Legend: AVTKMAN - TΓOPΔIANOC. Dotted border. Rev: Tyche recumbent facing left on couch, holding rudder and resting elbow on cushion to which a cornucopiae is attached. Legend: ЄΦЄςΙωΝ Κ - AIΑΛЄΞΑΝ - ΔΡЄΩΝ Dotted border. Refs: Franke/Nolle p 53, no 29, pl 25; BMC Ionia (Vol 16), pp 114, 424; ANS 1944-100-46206 (Neg: 750982) & ANS 1944-100-46207; Von Aulock 1936 var, see also CNG Auction #51, Lot # 81 Provenance: From Harlan Berk's $20 junk box, NYC ANA Show 08-Feb-1997. - Broucheion

Hi All, An Alexandrian panther(esses) biga. TRAJAN (27 Jan 98 - 9 Aug 117 CE) ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT Year 19 (115/116 CE) Æ Drachma Size: 33x34 mm Weight: 14.4 g Axis: 00:00 Broucheion Collection R-2020-02-14.001 OBV: Trajan head wreathed with ears of corn, facing right. Aegis on left shoulder. Legend: [AY]TTPAIANAPI - CЄB[ΓEPMΔΑΚIKΠAP]. Dotted border not visible. REV: Dionysus holding thyrsus, reclining in a biga of pantheresses moving left. The closer of the two pantheresses is looking back at emperor. Above: L [I]Θ. Dotted border. Refs: Emmett-442.19; Geissen-Unlisted; Dattari-849; RPC III-4897.2; SNG France-1233. Provenance: Bought from eBay. Ex Heritage Auction #61151, Lot #97064 (2020 January 26 Ancient Coin Selections from the Morris Collection, Part III World Coins Monthly Online Auction). Ex HJ Berk, with his ticket (inverntory #B23). Notes: Notation on HJ Berk ticket states: "Probably the same OBV die as Cologne 701 (rev LIΘ Jupiter seated)." - Broucheion

Hi All, Link ... "another Obol minted in Egypt" HADRIAN (11 Aug 117 - 10 Jul 138 CE) ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT Year 14 (129/130 CE) Æ OBOL Size: 18x20 mm Weight: 4.58 g Axis: 11:00 Broucheion Collection R-2018-06-30.001 OBV: Hadrian laureate head facing right. Legend: AVTKAITPAI-AΔPIA [CEB]. Dotted border. REV: Uraeus (cobra) serpent rearing to left, with poppy and grain ear in front. In left field: L; In right field: IΔ. Dotted border. Refs: Emmett-925.14; Geissen-1022; Dattari-2059var (rev date position); RPC III-5762; SNG Copenhagen-356; BMC-842; Mionnet-1096; Vogt II 52. Provenance: Ex-Naumann. - Broucheion

Hi All, Link ... This specimen illustrated in RPC . Æ Quadrans of M Licinius Crassus (Magistrate) ca 37 BCE Size: 16x17 mm Weight: 2.91 g Axis: 6:00 Broucheion Collection C-2018-06-01.001 References: RPC-I 0918 (Coin #14); This type was unknown to Svoronos; BMC-0026, pl XLII & BMC-0026a-b, p ccvii, Asolati 149a-b; SNG Copenhagen 1312 to 1313; Müller, Afrique - Unlisted. NOTE: This is Coin #14 of RPC I-918 Online, presently the plate coin at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/918 [verified 11 Dec 2022]. A similar coin sold by CNG is here. Provenance: International seller via eBay. Note: The Crassus in named on this coin cannot be the wealthy triumvirate colleague of Julius Caesar and Pompey, who died in 53 BCE, long before this coinage. This Crassus is almost certainly his grandson, Marcus Licinius Crassus the Younger. He fought with Sextus Pompey but transferred his loyalty to Marc Antony in c. 36 BCE. Under Mark Antony he was responsible for Crete and Cyrene. Shortly before Actium, Crassus defected to Octavian. He was consul in 30 BCE, triumphed in 27 BCE. From TV Buttrey (Studies in Numismatic Method Presented to Philip Grierson ) "The mints of Crassus - The coins of Crassus, like those of Lollius, were struck in both Greek and Latin series, but not in paired denominations as far as is now known (pl 6, nos 31-35). Nor were the dies cut centrally, as is shown by the differing styles of the Latin Apollo and the Greek Libya and crude Tyche. In manufacture the two series of Units are so distinct that their weight ranges barely overlap. Robinson (BMCCyr, ccxxi) properly assigns the Latin series to Crete, the Greek to the Cyrenaica, where however Crassus used two mints, Ptolemais and Cyrene, the only official of Roman times who appears to have done so. The Tyche Unit bears the inscription ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙ. Robinson knew no inscription for the rare Libya Unit (BMCCyr, ccvii, no 2.5 bis b = Svoronos, Ptolemaion, no 1902) but an example preserved in the office of the Director of Antiquities, Cyrcne, can be read: (K) Y (P) A to l and r of head. The Libya Quarter-unit also reads KYPA. Crassus' mints, therefore, struck distinctive types, and the Libya head appears to have been thought of as appropriate to the mint of Cyrene." The Crassus in named on this coin cannot be the wealthy triumvirate colleague of Julius Caesar and Pompey, who died in 53 BCE, long before this coinage. This Crassus is almost certainly his grandson, Marcus Licinius Crassus the Younger. He fought with Sextus Pompey but transferred his loyalty to Marc Antony in c. 36 BCE. Under Mark Antony he was responsible for Crete and Cyrene. Shortly before Actium, Crassus defected to Octavian. He was consul in 30 BCE, triumphed in 27 BCE. From TV Buttrey (Studies in Numismatic Method Presented to Philip Grierson): "The mints of Crassus - The coins of Crassus, like those of Lollius, were struck in both Greek and Latin series, but not in paired denominations as far as is now known (pl 6, nos 31-35). Nor were the dies cut centrally, as is shown by the differing styles of the Latin Apollo and the Greek Libya and crude Tyche. In manufacture the two series of Units are so distinct that their weight ranges barely overlap. Robinson (BMCCyr, ccxxi) properly assigns the Latin series to Crete, the Greek to the Cyrenaica, where however Crassus used two mints, Ptolemais and Cyrene, the only official of Roman times who appears to have done so. The Tyche Unit bears the inscription ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙ. Robinson knew no inscription for the rare Libya Unit (BMCCyr, ccvii, no 2.5 bis b = Svoronos, Ptolemaion, no 1902) but an example preserved in the office of the Director of Antiquities, Cyrene, can be read: (K) Y (P) A to l and r of head. The Libya Quarter-unit also reads KYPA. Crassus' mints, therefore, struck distinctive types, and the Libya head appears to have been thought of as appropriate to the mint of Cyrene." - Broucheion

Hi @Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, Congratulations!!! Here is a fire alter to celebrate. ANTONINUS PIUS (10 Jul 138 - 7 Mar 161 CE ) ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT Year 17 (153/154 CE) Æ Drachma Size: 32x34 mm Weight: 22.8 g Axis: 11:00 Broucheion Collection R-2016-03-28.001 Obv: Antoninus Pius laureate head facing right. Legend: [AYTK]TAIΛAΔP - ANT[ωNINOC CEB]. Dotted border not visible. Rev: Altar of Agathodaimon: hexastyle facade with garlanded entablature, aphlasta on each end, and burning pine cones in the middle, set on three-tiered base. Dotted border. Refs: Emmett-1448.17; Geissen-1701; Dattari-3011 var; Milne-2251; Oxford Ashmolean Museum #2252. Notes: From BMC Alexandria: "The extraordinary type of an Altar of great size, assuming the character of an edifice, the determination of which I owe to my colleague Mr. Murray, is peculiar to the Alexandrian series. It is represented as hexastyle, except in one type (Pl. xxix. 1204), which is tetrastyle, no doubt on account of the statue. The horns are like aplustria, and at the corners beneath each is a dolphin (see esp. 882, 1200). Upon the roof is in the centre a mass of fuel from which a flame rises, strangely varied in one case (1204). One type shows the edifice hung with garlands (1255). In some there is a statue before an altar of Egyptian form: the statue cannot be determined from the museum specimens (1200, 1201). In most there is between each column a curule chair, with in some cases a wreath, usually upright but at least once flat (882, 1204, 1255). It seems probable that the altar is that of the Emperor, and that the curule chairs were intended for him and the other imperial personages, the wreaths standing for them in their absence. If this attribution be correct, no doubt the altar was part of the Kaisareion, or Caesareum." - Broucheion

Hi All, COMMODUS (177 - 192 CE); Year 29 of MARCUS AURELIUS ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT Year 29 (188/189 CE) Bi TETRADRACHMA Size: 23x24 mm Weight: 11.5 g Axis: 00:00 Broucheion Collection R-2019-07-17.001 OBV: Commodus head laureate, facing right. Legend: [MAKOM*ANTω] - CЄBЄYCЄB. Border not visible. REV: Pharos (rectangular tower) on left, and corbita (ship) under sail on waves at right. In exurge: [L]KΘ (date). Border not visible. Refs: Emmett-2542.29; Geissen 2242-2243; Dattari-3903, pl xxviii; RPC IV.4-14216 temporary online; Milne-2683/2684; Curtis-0825; SNG Copenhagen-581 var: Rev ship faces to left; BMC-1439, pl xxix/1440; Mionnet-2388; Vogt II-110; Sammlung Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber, Hamburg: Die öffentliche Versteigerung findet Statt: 16 Nov 1908 u ffTage #4577. Provenance: Ex-CNG, INC (PA, USA): eAuction 448 (17 Jul 2019), Lot #329. "From the Rye Collection." - Broucheion

Hi All, The condition is known as 'Pica'. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder) - Broucheion

Hi All, Link ... Philip the Arab PHILIP I THE ARAB (ca Feb 244 - ca Sep 249 CE) ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT Year 02 (Aug 244 - Aug 245 CE) Bi Tetradrachm Size: 16x17 mm Weight: 13.8 g Axis: 00:00 Broucheion Collection R-2001-04-26.002 OBV: Philip I laureate cuirassed bust facing right. Medusa medallion on cuirass. Legend: AKMIOVΦIΛIΠΠOCЄVCЄB. Dotted border. REV: Tyche standing holding cornucopia in left arm, rudder at her feet to left. In left field: LB. Dotted border. Refs: Emmett-3513.02; Geissen-2714; Dattari-4920; ; Milne-3546 Provenance: Ex-Ken Dorney Note: Extra thick flan of 5 mm. - Broucheion

Hi All, Link ... Julia Domna from Alexandria. JULIA DOMNA (UNDER SEVERUS 193-211 CE) ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT 194 CE Ar Denarius Size: 15x17 mm Weight: 2.43 g Axis: 01:00 Broucheion Collection R-2002-03-07.001 Obv: Julia Domna draped bust facing right. Legend: IVLIADO - [MNAAVG]. Border not visible. Rev: Pietas seated left, holding Victory in right hand, sceptre in left. Legend: PIE[T]AS (very weak). Border not visible. Refs: RIC IV Alexandria, 612 (Septimius); Giessen-Unlisted; BMC-0330; RIC IV 612 (Septimius); BMCRE 330; RSC 146c; Barry P Murphy collection SEV-480 to SEV-482. - Broucheion

Hi All, SEVERUS ALEXANDER (11 Mar 222 - Mar 235 CE) ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT Year 01 (222 CE) Bi Tetradrachm Size: 22x24 mm Weight: 12.8 g Axis: 00:00 Broucheion Collection R-1993-12-11.002 OBV: Severus Alexander laureate and draped bust. Legend: AKAIMAPAYPCЄVHPAΛЄXANΔPOC - ЄYCЄB. Dotted border. REV: She-wolf facing left, head turned to look at suckling infants Romulus and Remus below her. Above: LA. Dotted border. Refs: Emmett-3141.01; Geissen-2406; Dattari-4417var (legend); Milne-2884; Curtis-1107; BMC-1680-1681, pl xxiii; Mionnet-2597; see Vogt I-183f, 185; Vogt II-126 PROVENANCE: Ex-Nick Economopoulos Note: Although a familiar symbol of Rome's foundation legend, the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus was, as far as I know, never used as a type on Severus' Rome coinage. - Broucheion

Hi All, Link ... Athena (Minerva) with spear and shield. MAXIMIANUS I HERCULIUS AUGUSTUS (With DIOCLETIAN: Jul 285 - 305 CE) ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT Year 11 (29 Aug 295-28 Aug 296 CE) Bi Tetradrachm Size: 19x20 mm Weight: 7.93 g Axis: 11:00 Broucheion Collection R-2016-05-20.001 Obv: Maximianus, laureate bust draped and wearing cuiras, facing right. Legend: [MAX]IMI - ANOCCЄB. Dotted border. Rev: Athena holding upright spear in right hand and shield in left advancing right, head turned to left. In left field: LI; In right field: A. Dotted border. Ref: Emmett-4101.11 Provenance: Ex Keith Emmett Collection with his holder; Ex-Antioch Coins October 2001. See http://www.beastcoins.com/Collections/KeithEmmettEgypt/C0754.jpg [BeastCoins photos, verified 27 Nov 2022] - Broucheion

Hi @Kazuma78, Wow for all the coins! Your GORGEOUS Ptolemaic stater is Lorber CPE-79, which she dates to ca 306-303 BCE and attributes to Uncertain Mint 02 in Egypt, perhaps Naucratis. - Broucheion

Hi All, T ... for Tarsus under Ptolemy II. PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHOS (285-246 BCE) ASIA MINOR, CILICIA, TARSUS, ca 261/0 - 259 BCE SILVER COINAGE WITH PORTRAIT OF PTOLEMY II, c 261/0-259 BCE Ar Drachm Size: 15 mm Weight: 3.39 g Die Axis: 11:00 Broucheion Collection P-1996-12-14.001 OBV: Ptolemy II diademed head facing right, wearing aegis. Border not visible. REV: Εagle on thunderbolt facing left, wings spread. ΔΡΚ monogram monogram to left with Gallic shield with a thunderbolt (?) on it; to right below eagle's tail Ҥ monogram. Legend: ΠΤΟΛΕ[ΜΑΙΟΥ] ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ. Dotted border. Refs: Lorber CPE-401 (This coin); AD Philippidis coll (P-1996-12-00.001 [renumbered to P-1996-12-14.001]), ex Elsen 47, 14 Dec 1996, lot 213, & Sternberg 27, 7-8 Nov 1994, lot 46. Note (CC Lorber CPE): "ET Newell (1941, pp 222-223) attributed this series to Tarsus during the Ptolemaic occupation of 246-243. He identified the portrait as that of Ptolemy III and pointed out control links to the Seleucid coinage of Antiochus II. The portrait was more convincingly identified as that of Ptolemy II by A Davesne (1999, pp 129-131). Davesne redated the series to the Second Syrian War, specifically to the short period from the end of 261 to 259. Davesne 's reattribution is persuasive, because there is a break in the Tarsian coinage of Antiochus II that is filled by the following series, which displays control links to both the preceding and subsequent coinage. Concerning the anomalous combination of Philadelphus' portrait and the Galatian shield with the Soter legend on the first emission of the series (CPE 400-401), Davesne suggested that the shield and the epiklesis Soter had the same function: the shield recalled an earlier military success, while the epithet glorified recent victories in Syria and Phoenicia. The pairing of the shield and epithet on CPE 399 suggests the possibility of local savior cults, an hypothesis that receives support from the Asia Minor coinage of Ptolemy III, whose portrait is associated with Soter legends at particular mints (CPE 751, 770-776, 779-780, 783-786)." - Broucheion

Hi @Nerosmyfavorite68, Looks like Alexandria to me. - Broucheion

Hi All, S ... For Ptolemy I as Satrap. PTOLEMY I SOTER (SATRAP: 323-305/4 BCE) EGYPT, MEMPHIS,ca 323/322 BCE Ar STATER (TETRADRACHM) Size: 27x29 mm Weight: 17.03 g Die Axis:00:00 Broucheion Collection P-2015-03-14.001 OBV: Heracles head, facing right wearing lion skin tied at neck and Ammon horn. Dotted border. REV: Zeus Aetophoros seated on throne, feet crossed and on footrest, facing left. Holds eagle in outstreached right hand and staff in left. In left field: Amun-Ra head with double feathered plumes; To right: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ. Below throne ΔA monogram. Dotted border. Refs: Lorber CPE-4; Price-3964; Zervos (1974), Issue 3 [94 recorded, from 8 obverse dies]; SNG Copenhagen-9; Zervos (1967), Issue III (dated 324 BCE). Provenance: Ex Jean Elsen Sept 1984 and Auction 124 (14 Mar 2015), Lot# 139. - Broucheion

Hi All, A Ptolemaic portrait not often seen in silver which I think is realistic: Ptolemy III Euergetes. PTOLEMY III EUERGETES (246-222 BCE) UNCERTAIN MINT 31: PERHAPS IN CILICIA PEDIAS, from 245 BCE Ar TETRADRACHM (STATER) Size: 25 mm Weight: 14.2 g Die Axis: 0 Refs: Lorber CPE-798 (This); Svoronos 914, pl xxvii, 10 [1 listed, Dattari]; COP-0691 var: sim rev style. Broucheion Collection P-1997-06-01.001 OBV: Ptolemy III head facing right, wearing diadem and lion skin or aegis Plain border (not dotted). REV: Εagle on thunderbolt facing left, wings closed. Legend to left: ΠΤΟΛΕ [ΜΑΙΟΥ]. In left field: inverted "N" above club. To right: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ. In right field: bunch of grapes. Plain border (not Dotted). Provenance: CPE Plate Coin. Ex Auctiones AG Basel, Auction 26 (16-19 Sep 1996), Lot #336. Notes: Same dies as EH 105 The "Syria" 981 Hoard, pl 51, #747. Obverse die links known with CPE 797 & 799. - Broucheion

Hi All, THEODOSIUS I (379-395 CE) ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT (OFFICINA Γ) Fourth Period: 9 Aug 378 - 25 Aug 383 CE Æ AES IV Size: 13x15 mm Weight: 1.62 g Axis: 04:00 Ref: RIC IX, Alexandria, 13c (OFF Γ) Broucheion Collection R-2017-09-20.002 Obv: Theodosius I diademed and cuirassed bust facing right. Legend: DNTHEODO - SIVSPFAVG. Solid border. Rev: VOT / X / MULT / XX within wreath (backwards "L" in MVLT). In exergue: ALEΓ. Solid border. Note: Reverse, backwards "L" in MVLT; see footnote in RIC for 13c (Pearce). Next: A coin with a backwards letter or letters. - Broucheion

Hi All, AUGUSTUS (16 Jan 27 BCE - 19 Aug 14 CE) CYPRUS, UNCERTAIN MINT, 26 CE Æ Size: 20x21 mm Weight: 6.85 g Die Axis: 01:00 Broucheion Collection RI-2000-10-23.001 Obv: Augustus head facing right. Legend (starting 1:00 positiion): AVGVSTVS - DIVIFIMPCAESAR. Dotted border. Rev: Nike advancing to left. Legend: COSOCTA - V - ODESIG IX. Dotted border. Refs: RPC I-3904, BMC-1, FITA 80-1, Amandry 1a (Paphos?); ANS 1952.142.248 & ANS 1952.142.249; Parks 2004, 1. - Broucheion

Hi All, Let us not forget that Artemis was the sister of Apollo. Ptolemy V Epiphanes (205/204-180 BCE) Cyrenaica, Cyrene, Bronze Weight Standard 1 Æ DIOBOL Size: 27 mm Weight: 13.88 g Broucheion Collection C-2014-02-19.001 OBV: Apollo and Artemis(with bow and quiver over shoulder) jugate busts, facing right. Dotted border. REV: Ptolemy I diademed head with scaly aegis, facing right. Legend starting in left field: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ; In right field: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ. Dotted border. Refs: Svoronos-1137, pl. xxxvi, 20-23 [13 listed]; SNG Copenhagen-454; BMC Vol06.079, #13 / BMC 29, #105; Asolati (2011), 71. Buttrey 63. Note according to Lorber: "T.V. Buttrey (1997, p. 43), followed by M. Asolati (2011, p. 31), suggested they might reflect the marriage of Ptolemy VI to his sister Cleopatra II. The style, however, features strongly protruding chins and recalls the portraiture of the Alexandrian silver of Ptolemy V. The Apollo typology, absent from Cyrenean coinage since the reign of Magas, could allude (through the equivalence of Apollo to Horus) to the insistent identification of Ptolemy V with Horus, both in priestly decrees and on his coinage. Just as Apollo was the Greek equivalent of Horus, Artemis was identified with the Egyptian goddess Bast. The cat-headed Bast had no role in early versions of the Osirian myth, but in Ptolemaic times she was reinterpreted as the sister of Horus." - Broucheion

Hi All, Connection ... Bust of Zeus-Ammon. SEVERUS ALEXANDER (Caesar 221 - 11 Mar 222 CE) ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT Year 05 (225/226 CE) Bi Tetradrachm Size: 23x24 mm Weight: 15.5g Axis: 00:00 Broucheion Collection R-2017-05-17.001 Obv: Severus Alexander laureate and draped cuirased bust facing right. Legend: MAPAYPAΛЄXANΔPOCKAICAP. Dotted border. Rev: Zeus-Ammon head wearing headress of straight rams horns and solar disk. In left field: L; In right field: Є. Dotted border Refs: Emmett-3042.05; Geissen-Unlisted; Dattari-4249; Milne-2853; BMC-1581 - Broucheion