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Offline Juan R

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Ptolemy Ix or X, Cyprus mint
« on: October 17, 2019, 03:43:25 pm »
Hi everyone, amy idea about what happened on the anv of this coin?
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Re: Ptolemy Ix or X, Cyprus mint
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2019, 05:13:48 pm »
Massive planchet flaw?

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Re: Ptolemy Ix or X, Cyprus mint
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2019, 03:13:02 pm »
Massive planchet flaw?

Lettering is pretty odd, too. C instead of SIGMA, twice, and curly 'w' instead of ordinary OMEGA.

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Re: Ptolemy Ix or X, Cyprus mint
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2019, 03:21:41 pm »
Quote from: PtolemAE on October 18, 2019, 03:13:02 pm
Massive planchet flaw?

Lettering is pretty odd, too. C instead of SIGMA, twice, and curly 'w' instead of ordinary OMEGA.

PtolemAE
May it be a contemporany imitation? Maybe fake?
Thanks so much for your time to both of you

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Re: Ptolemy Ix or X, Cyprus mint
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2019, 04:05:49 pm »
Hi Ptolemae, do you think it is or isn't genuine?

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Re: Ptolemy Ix or X, Cyprus mint
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2019, 11:03:44 pm »
Hi Ptolemae, do you think it is or isn't genuine?

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I don't know.

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Re: Ptolemy Ix or X, Cyprus mint
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2019, 08:54:31 am »
The patina and surfaces certainly look authentic to me.

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Re: Ptolemy Ix or X, Cyprus mint
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2019, 03:51:23 pm »
Thanks so much yo both of you,.

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