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Some problems (and solutions) in dating Ptolemaic bronze coins Dating Ptolemaic Coins

General aspects of dating coin hoards Dating of Hoards

Review of the contents of the Coinex hoard Contents of the Hoard

Time Shifting: Change in date caused by a monetary reform Time Shifting

Introduction to the corrected attribution of the Coinex hoard Corrected Attribution

   Corrected attribution determined from countermarks from Countermarks

   Corrected attribution determined from post-reform coins from Post-reform Coins

Review of a previously published (and incorrect) attribution of the Coinex hoard Previous Attribution

   Previously published attribution as incorrectly obtained from countermarked coins from Countermarked Coins 

   Previously published attribution as incorrectly obtained from pre-reform coins from Pre-reform Coins

Summary and comparison of the two different methods of hoard analysis Summary

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Corrected Attribution of the Coinex Hoard

  Acknowledgements                

Acknowledgements :

I wish to thank Catharine Lorber for being very helpful, as well as gracious, in giving information, ideas and suggestions that have aided me in forming my views of the Coinex hoard when I first decided to look into this matter.

I should also like to thank Norman Janzen, Edward Piers, and Jim Russell for useful discussions and suggestions.

Illustration Credits :

      Part 1:  MdP;  151 (Sv1148, p. 95), 195 (Sv1380, p. 111),  200 (Sv1383, p. 113),  214 (Sv1424, p. 117).

      Part 3:  Coins A; NC 2 (Sv465, Plate 2),  NC 1 (Sv448, Plate 2).

                  Coins B;  NC 6 (Sv1166, Plate 2),  NC 10 (Sv1167, Plate 2), NC 15 (Sv1169, Plate 2).

                  Coins C;  NC 47 (Sv1145sic, Plate 5 = Sv1148),  NC 60 (Sv1140, Plate 6).

                  Coins D;  NC 63 (Sv1423, Plate 7),  NC 96 (Sv1423, Plate 9).

                  Coins E;  NC 99 (Sv1424, Plate 10),  NC 129 (Sv1424, Plate 12).

      Part 4:   MdP; 151 (Sv1148, p. 95),  NC 47 (Sv1145sic, Plate 5 = Sv1148).

      Parts 5, 5a, 5b, 6, 6a, 6b:  NC 2 (Sv465,  Plate 2),  NC 6 (Sv1166, Plate 2),

                  NC 47 (Sv1145sic, Plate 5 = Sv1148),  NC 99 (Sv1424, Plate 10).

      Part 5a:  MDAI(K);  (Sv1375), Plate 44, Number 21;  =  Hunter; Plate 83, Number 15.


 MdP = H.-C. Noeske,  Die Münzen der Ptolemäer, (Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main,  2000).

 NC = S. M. Huston and C. C. Lorber,  ‘A hoard of Ptolemaic bronze coins in commerce,
 October 1992 (CH 8, 413)’,  Numismatic Chronicle, 2001,  pp. 12-18.

 MDAI(K) = H.-Chr. Noeske ‚ ‘Gegenstempel auf Ptolemäischen bronzemünzen’,
 Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo,  51,  1995,  pp. 198,  Plate 44.