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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Ptolemaic Egypt| > GP94457
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos, 80 - 58 and 55 - 51 B.C.
|Ptolemaic| |Egypt|, |Ptolemaic| |Kingdom| |of| |Egypt,| |Ptolemy| |XII| |Neos| |Dionysos,| |80| |-| |58| |and| |55| |-| |51| |B.C.|, In 80 B.C., Ptolemy XI was removed from the throne by the Egyptian people after he killed his coregent and step-mother Berenice III. Since he had no male heir, the oldest (illegitimate) son of Ptolemy IX was made King Ptolemy XII. Ptolemy XI had left the throne to Rome in his will, but Rome did not challenge Ptolemy XII's succession because the Senate did not want an Egyptian expansion.
GP94457. Silver tetradrachm, Svoronos 1866 (Cleopatra VII); SNG Cop 390; Noeske 347 - 347; BMC Ptolemies p. 118, 15 (Ptolemy XI); Hosking -; SNG Milan -, F, toned, broad flan for this issue, porosity, buffed, Paphos mint, weight 12.683g, maximum diameter 24.7mm, die axis 0o, 63 - 62 B.C.; obverse diademed head of Ptolemy I right wearing aegis; reverse ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, wings closed, head left, LIΘ (year 19) left, ΠA right; SOLD











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