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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Themes & Provenance| > |Denominations| > |Tesserae| > RX41298
Roman Egypt, Arsinoiton polis (Arsinoite Nome), Upper Egypt, 1st - 3rd Century A.D.
|Tesserae|, |Roman| |Egypt,| |Arsinoiton| |polis| |(Arsinoite| |Nome),| |Upper| |Egypt,| |1st| |-| |3rd| |Century| |A.D.|, The Ptolemies renamed Atef-Pehu (the Krocodilopolitan nome) to Arsinoe and the capital city Krokodopolis (the City of Crocodiles) to Ptolemais Euergetis. In Roman times the nome was the Arsinoiton polis and Krokodopolis was called Arsinoe.
RX41298. Lead tessera, Geissen 3495; Dattari 6423; Emmett 4366; Milne -, Fair, Arsinoe (Krokodopolis) mint, weight 4.894g, maximum diameter 23.9mm, 1st - 3rd century A.D.; obverse bust of Pharaoh right wearing wig, beard and uraeus (cobra) crown, reed before; reverse APCINOEITWN Φ ΠOΛEWC (retrograde), crocodile right on a pedestal, solar disk above, all within laurel wreath tied at the bottom, legend around within dot border; extremely rare; SOLD










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