About 900 Ptolemaic and Seleucid coins from the Netherlands National Numismatic Collection added
Finally, after two years on the back-burner, I have been able to process spreadsheets sent to me by Paul Belien at the National Numismatic Museum of De Nederlandsche Bank. These spreadsheets were of DNB's Seleucid and Ptolemaic coinage, with references to Hoover's Seleucid Coins and Ptolemaic types from Svoronos' 1904 volume, Ta nomismata tou kratous ton Ptolemaion. More than 600 coins from DNB have been added into Seleucid Coins Online and more than 250 have been added to Ptolemaic Coins Online, representing approximately half of DNB's Ptolemaic collection, since only the first half of the Ptolemaic Empire has so far been published to PCO. The DNB is presently the third-largest contributor of Seleucid coins, behind the American Numismatic Society and Bibliotheque nationale de France.
A few Seleucid coins have findspots of Caesarea (in Israel), perhaps from excavations. Interestingly one Ptolemaic coin, CPE 892, a silver stater minted in Alexandria of Ptolemy IV, was found in Arnhem, Netherlands.
DNB 1960-0180, found in Arnhem
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