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MAURETANIAN KINGDOM. Juba II (25 BC-AD 23/24), with Cleopatra Selene. AR denarius (16mm, 3.38 gm, 11h). NGC AU★ 5/5 - 5/5. Caesarea in Mauretania, ca. AD 11. REX IVBA, diademed head of Juba II right / BACIΛICCA•KΛЄOΠATPA, six-pointed star within crescent. SNG Copenhagen 567. Deep cabinet toning with flashes of jade and sienna throughout the fields.
From the Dean Kinzer Collection. Ex Edward J. Waddell, private sale with old dealer's tag; Frank Sternberg, Fixed Price List 4 (1992), lot 100
Cleopatra Selene (Moon), the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty, was the daughter of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, born in about 40 BC; her fraternal twin was named Alexander Helios (Sun). After her parents' deaths in the Civil War (30 BC), Octavian, the future Augustus Caesar, brought Cleopatra and her siblings home and they were raised by Octavia, his sister. In 26 BC, Augustus arranged for Cleopatra to marry Juba II, king of Numidia, and provided a rich dowry in return for him making his kingdom a province of Rome. Juba and Cleopatra returned to Africa as client rulers of an adjacent kingdom, Mauritania, and began minting coins that alluded to the power of both rulers.
The date of Cleopatra's death is a mystery; she was thought to have died in AD 6 as Juba is known to have remarried around this time (to Glaphyra, a princess of Cappadocia), but coins bearing Cleopatra Selene's name are known that bear the regnal date equivalent to AD 17, indicating she was still alive and queen of Mauritania at this time.
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MAURETANIAN KINGDOM. Juba II (25 BC-AD 23/24), with Cleopatra Selene. AR denarius (16mm, 3.38 gm, 11h). NGC AU★ 5/5 - 5/5. Caesarea in Mauretania, ca. AD 11. REX IVBA, diademed head of Juba II right / BACIΛICCA•KΛЄOΠATPA, six-pointed star within crescent. SNG Copenhagen 567. Deep cabinet toning with flashes of jade and sienna throughout the fields.
From the Dean Kinzer Collection. Ex Edward J. Waddell, private sale with old dealer's tag; Frank Sternberg, Fixed Price List 4 (1992), lot 100
Cleopatra Selene (Moon), the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty, was the daughter of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, born in about 40 BC; her fraternal twin was named Alexander Helios (Sun). After her parents' deaths in the Civil War (30 BC), Octavian, the future Augustus Caesar, brought Cleopatra and her siblings home and they were raised by Octavia, his sister. In 26 BC, Augustus arranged for Cleopatra to marry Juba II, king of Numidia, and provided a rich dowry in return for him making his kingdom a province of Rome. Juba and Cleopatra returned to Africa as client rulers of an adjacent kingdom, Mauritania, and began minting coins that alluded to the power of both rulers.
The date of Cleopatra's death is a mystery; she was thought to have died in AD 6 as Juba is known to have remarried around this time (to Glaphyra, a princess of Cappadocia), but coins bearing Cleopatra Selene's name are known that bear the regnal date equivalent to AD 17, indicating she was still alive and queen of Mauritania at this time.
https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/greek/ancients-mauretanian-kingdom-juba-ii-25-bc-ad-23-24-with-cleopatra-selene-ar-denarius-16mm-338-gm-11h-ngc/a/3106-33137.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3106-01172023
HID02906262019
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