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cn coin 11059

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CN Type 12307 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Ptolemaios II. Philadelphos (Hellenistic king)

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

246-222 v. Chr

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Diademed head of Ptolemy III Euergetes, right, wearing aegis knotted around neck.
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Reverse
Legend
ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ
Design
Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, wings closed. 
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: top right)
Symbol
cult figure standing (position: on the left)
Persons

Sitter: Ptolemaios III. Euergetes 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
12.66 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: Z 2884.275

Provenience: Dattari

Public Commentary

Barbaric portrait.

Literature

Lorber, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire. Part I: Ptolemy I through Ptolemy IV, volume 1-2, New York 2018 p. 400, nr. 754 ❐

Web Reference: http://numismatics.org/pco/id/cpe.1_1.754. ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 11059, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11059 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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