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Auction XIV 21 Sep 2017
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Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy VI AV Mnaieon - Oktadrachm. Paphos, year 29 = 153/2 BC. Head of Arsinoe II to right, wearing diadem, stephane and ram's horn, and with a lotus-tipped sceptre above her head / Double cornucopiae bound with fillet; ΑΡΣΙΝΟΗΣ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟΥ around; LΚΘ to left, ΠΑ above bird to right. Unpublished in the standard references, for similar issues cf.: Svoronos 1444 (year 31); St James's, 11 May 2009, 908 (year 19); Leu 71, 1997, 249 (year 17). 27.78g, 27mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Unique, unpublished, and numismatically significant.
In 164 BC Ptolemy VI was driven out by his brother and went to Rome to seek support. The Romans cleverly responded by partitioning the Ptolemaic kingdom, granting Cyprus and Egypt to Ptolemy VI which he ruled until 145, and Kyrenaica to Ptolemy VIII.
The numismatic importance of this extremely rare dated gold mnaieon commemorating the divine Arsinoe II, issued by Ptolemy VI at Paphos, is that it has been associated with the gold staters of Magnesia signed by Euphemos son of Pausanias, and by association the Artemis/Cult statue of Artemis gold staters, and confirms their chronology to shortly before or after 153/2 BC.
Good Very Fine. Unique, unpublished, and numismatically significant.
In 164 BC Ptolemy VI was driven out by his brother and went to Rome to seek support. The Romans cleverly responded by partitioning the Ptolemaic kingdom, granting Cyprus and Egypt to Ptolemy VI which he ruled until 145, and Kyrenaica to Ptolemy VIII.
The numismatic importance of this extremely rare dated gold mnaieon commemorating the divine Arsinoe II, issued by Ptolemy VI at Paphos, is that it has been associated with the gold staters of Magnesia signed by Euphemos son of Pausanias, and by association the Artemis/Cult statue of Artemis gold staters, and confirms their chronology to shortly before or after 153/2 BC.