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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Ptolemaic Egypt| > GP39136
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II, as King of Kyrenaica, 163 - 145 B.C.
|Ptolemaic| |Egypt|, |Ptolemaic| |Kingdom| |of| |Egypt,| |Ptolemy| |VIII| |Euergetes| |II,| |as| |King| |of| |Kyrenaica,| |163| |-| |145| |B.C.|, The date and reign of issue for this type are uncertain. Svoronos attributed it to Ptolemy IV but noted it may "belong to a later reign." Recent attributions span from Ptolemy VIII to Ptolemy X. Kreuzer suggests it is similar to Svoronos 1426, Cleopatra III and Ptolemy IX.
GP39136. Bronze AE 21, SNG Cop 455; Svoronos 1158 (Ptolemy IV), aVF, Kyrene (near Shahhat, Libya) mint, weight 4.964g, maximum diameter 20.9mm, die axis 0o, obverse head of Zeus Ammon right with ram's horn, wearing taenia and uraeus; reverse ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, two eagles with closed wings standing left on two thunderbolts, silphium plant in left field; rare; SOLD



  






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