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2 Coins - Ancients?

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 Posted 08/19/2011  9:23 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add 1gtsfan to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
found these two, they look like ancient coins but I'm not really sure. I'm thinking roman because that looks like the Pantheon. any help would be great, thanks.

2-Coins---Ancients?
2-Coins---Ancients?
2-Coins---Ancients?
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 Posted 08/20/2011  01:56 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The top one is a replica ancient Jewish coin from the Second Revolt (Bar Kochba) period; see this thread and the link in that thread for some identical replicas. The original coins with this design were silver.

The second coin appears to be genuine; it's from Ptolemaic Egypt, in the name of a "King Ptolemy". Unfortunately, every male Pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty (there were 15 of them) called themselves "Ptolemy", and the eagle was a popular design motif, so I'm not sure the ID can be narrowed down too much further. How big is it?
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 Posted 08/20/2011  12:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add 1gtsfan to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It is approx. 21 mm. the actual weight is 7.9g.
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 Posted 08/20/2011  11:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
OK, that does help narrow things down.

The obverse portrait helps, too: I believe it's the rather unusual one of the old king Alexander the Great wearing an "elephant's head head-dress". This was only used on coins of 20-22mm diameter on coins of Ptolemy II and Ptolemy V. On Ptolemy V coins the portrait seems to be smaller, so I would assume this is a Ptolemy II coin, from the "post-reform" series Alexandria mint, dated circa 260 BC. I also notice that the mint control letter between the eagle's legs is epsilon (E), which would make the coin number 451 in the Svoronos catalogue. See the PtolemAE Project web page and compare the types there.
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 Posted 08/21/2011  03:00 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add 1gtsfan to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Really appreciate the great information Sap, my first ancient coin!
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