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Shipping costs: Check item See eligibility description and [Image] payment [Image] instructions or contact seller for details [Go down][ ]Shipping and payment details [Image] [Image]Description [Image] [Image] [Image] [Image] Please click the banner above to go to our eBay "AboutMe" home page. presents Classical Cash's 238th eBay Sale! [Image] [Image] If the photos above do not load, click here for Obverse and click here for Reverse ORC3832 Ptolemy XII tetr. VF Egypt, Ptolemy XII, AR (33%) tetradrachm, (12.81g) dated Year 27 = 55/54 BC, Paphos Mint, Diademed head of Ptolemy XII right, aegis at neck. / PTOLEMAIOY BASILEWS Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, LKH, the H sideways, before, PA behind. Svor. 1836; SNG Cop 394. VF, minor porosity. Produced under Roman supervision to pay debts inside the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Tetradrachms of the later Ptolemies all have similar types. The obverse features a diademed head facing right, with a strong chin, usually wearing an aegis at the neck. Die axis is generally 12:00. The reverse says ''Ptolemy, King'' in Greek. To the left of the eagle are L for Year, and one or two letters which spell out the date in Greek. For example, L IB is Year 10 + 2 = 12 of the reign of the ruler, dated from the ruler's ascension to power. To the right of the eagle is the mintmark PA, for Paphos, today sometimes called Neo- or Nea- Paphos because the Ptolemaic city of Paphos was 10 miles west of the [Image] Archaic city. [Image] Svoronos considers the obverse of the coinage of the later Ptolemies to show a portrait of Ptolemy I Soter, with a dummy PA mintmark was copied in Alexandria from coins struck at Paphos in prior decades. The argument can be made that the portraits on these later coins are not of Ptolemy I Sotor, but are contemporary portraits, and that the mintmark actually reflects where the coin was minted. After the restoration of Ptolemy XII by the Romans, an unusual revision of the portrait took place. His chief minister was, rather briefly, a Roman creditor named Rabirius Postumus. Hazzard writes, quoting Morkholm, ''An elaborate hairstyle now gave a certain charm to the head of Ptolemy Soter. The hairstyling, remarked Morkholm, 'consisted of several sharply separated rows of locks arranged alternately, and placed in tiers, one above the other.''' The strength of the chin on the tetradrachm portrait declines markedly. In ''Standard Ptolemaic Silver,'' Newell notes: With the renewed issues of [Ptolemy VI] Philometor in Cyprus, a new type of head makes its appearance. The hair has become inordinately curly, the nose longer, thinner, sharper, the eye a mere dot and not so deeply sunk as before. Only the projecting chin is still that of [Ptolemy I] Sotor and enables us to see, though perhaps with difficulty, that the less able die-cutters of the second century B.C. were still attempting to reproduce the features of the first Ptolemy. 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