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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Antiquities| > |Antiquities by Type| > |Weights & Scales| > AS84035
Ptolemaic Egypt, Lead Weight of 8 Ptolemaic Silver Drachms (28.599g), 162 - 30 B.C.
|Weights| |&| |Scales|, |Ptolemaic| |Egypt,| |Lead| |Weight| |of| |8| |Ptolemaic| |Silver| |Drachms| |(28.599g),| |162| |-| |30| |B.C.|, This weight shares the same value side die with a 35.71 g weight from Kunker auction 182, lot 403. The Kunker example has a Ptolemy VI, Kiton mint, year 20 (162/1 B.C.), tetradrachm reverse type instead of the Athens tetradrachm obverse type on our example. Click to see the Kunker weight. The shared die suggest that the two weight types were manufactured in pairs and, despite the difference in weight, were used to weigh an equal value of silver. Our weight with Athena's head would have been used to weigh eight pre-170 B.C. drachms with a higher silver standard (the greater purity symbolized by the Athens tetradrachm). The Kunker weight would have been used to weigh ten post-170 B.C. debased Ptolemaic silver drachms, which had a value equal to eight of the older purer drachms.
AS84035. Lead weight, VF, pierced horizontally on the edge for stringing and suspension, Ptolemaic mint, weight 28.599g, maximum diameter 27.4mm, die axis 270o, 162 - 30 B.C.; obverse head of Athena right, wearing a crested helmet ornamented with a floral scroll and olive leaves (imitative of Athens "old style" tetradrachms); reverse monogram, over H (8) AΣ (abbreviating AΣ[ΗMI]=silver(?), Σ reversed), over P; ex Roma e-sale 21, lot 1134; SOLD










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