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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Ptolemaic Egypt| > GP88272
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy I Soter, 305 - 282 B.C.
|Ptolemaic| |Egypt|, |Ptolemaic| |Kingdom| |of| |Egypt,| |Ptolemy| |I| |Soter,| |305| |-| |282| |B.C.|, In Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire, C. Lorber writes, "The pattern of finds for this issue is consistent with an origin at Palai Paphos, home to the great sanctuary of Aphrodite Cypria..." But, she then, noting that the hemiobol is the only denomination with two varieties, one with Aphrodite wearing a taenia and the other wearing a stephane, writes, "the variety with stephane, not found at Curium, could have been struck at Neo Paphos."
GP88272. Bronze hemiobol, Lorber CPE B123; Svoronos 80 (5 spec.); SNG Cop 643; BMC Ptolemies p. 7, 59; Weiser 3; SNG Milan 27; Noeske -; Hosking -, F, rough, Cyprus, Nea Paphos(?) mint, weight 4.460g, maximum diameter 16.2mm, die axis 0o, 294 - 282 B.C.; obverse head of Aphrodite right, wearing a stephane; reverse eagle standing left on thunderbolt, head left, wings open, ΠTOΛΕ upward on left, wreath left; ex Ora Eads Collection; ex CNG Sale 41 (19 Mar 1997), lot 1035 (part of); scarce; SOLD











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