A Project about centration
dimples
on roman provincial and egyptian coins
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Ptolemaic coin with very strong signs of a processed flan.
- big centration dimples
- segments of concentric circles on the obverse/reverse and
starlike grooves
- grooves on the edge
- trapezoid shape of the flan
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Time of Cleopatra (?) AE32
Time of Cleopatra, AE32 (tetrobol) (26.61g) Cyprus, Very crude head of Zeus-Ammon right. / Crude Greek legend,
"Ptolemy King" Two eagles standing. Cf. Svor. 1917 (Cleopatra and co-rulers). Crude F, brown patina, with a series
of concentric scratches on the reverse which demonstrate the lathing or re-lathing process.
A clear line does not exist between issues of Ptolemaic Cyprus that are imitative and those that are produced by
sloppy official mints. Certainly this example is among the crudest. Paphos II references the findings of
Limestone coin casting molds at various locations. This indicates that the monopoly on coin production may
have been shared widely.
The weight standard of this issue is about 7.2 g / obol. This standard was used during the reign of
Cleopatra VII and her co-rulers, Ptolemy XIII to XV. This piece may be earlier than Svoronos calls it.
Under Antoninus Pius, Paphos struck a fairly large issue of sestertii-drachms with the young Marcus Aurelius
Caesar on the reverse. There was a smaller issue of similar dupondii-hemidrachms. Ases were also perhaps
struck. Cox notes that some of this issue was overstruck on Ptolemaic coins. Is this coin an old Ptolemaic
coin prepared for restriking ?
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Roman Provincial coins with circles:
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Gordian III, AE 26. Nikopolis Ad Istrum.
Rev: Eagle standing left between two standards.
Traces of circles visible near the dimple on both sides.
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Provincial coin of Gordianus with very nice concentric circles
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