Savoca Coins
Online Auction 95 | Silver 14 Feb 2021
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Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. Uncertain mint in Cyprus. Kleopatra III and Ptolemy X Alexander I 107-101 BC.
Drachm Æ
36 mm, 23,08 g
Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ, two eagles with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt, vertical thunderbolt to left.
very fine
Svoronos 1694 (Salamis); SNG Copenhagen -; Noeske -; Weiser -.
This issue seems to belong together with coins on the basis of style, often 'knife-edge' fabric, and the profusion of symbols next to the eagles on the reverse. A convergence of evidence links these types with a wide variety of unusual symbols to the time of Ptolemy IX - X, who competed and fought one another for rule of Egypt and Cyprus and during whose reigns a wide variety of similar symbols appeared on tetradrachms during a short time period. The exact meaning of the symbols is not known and, unlike many other Ptolemaic coin issues, they do not appear to indicate mintmarks because they are quite varied (thunderbolt, aphlaston, caduceus, petasos, cornucopia etc.).
Drachm Æ
36 mm, 23,08 g
Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ, two eagles with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt, vertical thunderbolt to left.
very fine
Svoronos 1694 (Salamis); SNG Copenhagen -; Noeske -; Weiser -.
This issue seems to belong together with coins on the basis of style, often 'knife-edge' fabric, and the profusion of symbols next to the eagles on the reverse. A convergence of evidence links these types with a wide variety of unusual symbols to the time of Ptolemy IX - X, who competed and fought one another for rule of Egypt and Cyprus and during whose reigns a wide variety of similar symbols appeared on tetradrachms during a short time period. The exact meaning of the symbols is not known and, unlike many other Ptolemaic coin issues, they do not appear to indicate mintmarks because they are quite varied (thunderbolt, aphlaston, caduceus, petasos, cornucopia etc.).