Mr Huller,Stephan Huller wrote:I am out of the country filming a documentary on this very subject. Will get photos of the coins for DCH shortly.
Now that you are back amongst us civilized folks (well, up there in Seattle you are at least close to Canada) do you think you might be able to find the image of the Ptolemy Mnaeus coin from Chalcis that is supposed to use the "tau-rho" image as a symbol for "tetrarch"?
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Fuller bibliography prevented by limited page images on Google Books = Amazon PreviewThe Coins of Herod: A Modern Analysis and Die Classification, by Donald Tzvi Ariel, Jean-Philippe Fontanille, (Brill, 2011, p. 125)
9. 1982: τετρήρχης. Meshorer (TJC:62) noted that Ptolemy, the Iturean king of Chalcis, was a tetrarch and also inscribed Ᵽ on his coins. The coin in question (Kindler 1993:286, No. 6), dates to 63/62 BCE, and Ᵽ appears in the right field as on the LΓ coins. Meshorer interpreted the Ᵽ monogram on Ptolemy’s coin as standing for the Greek word for tetrarch. This is reasonable, as this coin of Ptolemy is one in which an inscription noting the king’s status as tetrarch is absent. Meshorer interpreted the Ᵽ on Herod’s coins to mean tetrarch as well, and used this fact to support his dating of the coin series to 40 BCE (section 5.2 above). Liampi (1989:39) accepted that the Ᵽ monogram meant tetrarch. Ptolemy’s monogram, however, is an isolated instance. While this interpretation is an improvement over Rappaport’s poor use of a 75-year-old parallel (section 5.2 above), Ptolemy nevertheless ruled more than 20 years before Herod. His other coins did not bear this monogram; nor is it found on coins of numerous other contemporary tetrarchs.
However, there is this in a Durham e-thesis online:
Kindley (1993)
A. Kindler, 'On the coins of the Ituraeans', in: M Hoc (ed.) Proceedings of the XIth International Numismatic Congress. Organized for the 150th Anniersary of the Societe Royale de Numismatique de Belgique Brussles, September 8th-13th, 1991 (Louvian-la-Neuve 1993) 283-288.
http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/9387/1/PhD_The ... n.pdf?DDD3+