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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Ptolemaic Egypt| > GP08594
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy VI Philometor and Ptolemy VIII Euergetes, 170 - 163 B.C.
|Ptolemaic| |Egypt|, |Ptolemaic| |Kingdom| |of| |Egypt,| |Ptolemy| |VI| |Philometor| |and| |Ptolemy| |VIII| |Euergetes,| |170| |-| |163| |B.C.|, In 170 B.C., Antiochus IV invaded and made Ptolemy VI his puppet. In reply, the people made his younger brother Ptolemy VIII Physcon king. After Antiochus left on orders from Rome, the brothers agreed to share rule, along with their sister. In 164, Physcon usurped sole rule. Ptolemy VI received support from Rome and in 163 the brothers agreed to a partition with Physcon ruling Cyrenaica.
GP08594. Bronze diobol, Svoronos 1426, SNG Cop 311-318, aVF, Egypt, Alexandria mint, weight 9.35g, maximum diameter 21.2mm, die axis 0o, 170 - 163 B.C.; obverse diademed and horned head of Zeus-Ammon right; reverse ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, two eagles standing left, side-by-side, on thunderbolt, cornucopia left; SOLD











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