Coinage of the Ptolemaic kingdom was struck in Phoenician weight, also known as Ptolemaic weight (about 14.2 grams) which was the weight of a Ptolemaic...
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the tetradrachm. Also the Persian coinage, the Persian daric and the Sigloi were used, and later the Ptolemaic coinage. As the evidence from the discovered...
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The Ptolemaic Kingdom (/ˌtɒlɪˈmeɪ.ɪk/; Koinē Greek: Πτολεμαϊκὴ βασιλεία, romanized: Ptolemaïkḕ basileía) or Ptolemaic Empire was an Ancient Greek polity...
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to the Ptolemaic Kingdom which imposed an exclusive royal currency. In coin making process there were similarities with the Ptolemaic coinage. For instance...
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Cleopatra (category Pharaohs of the Ptolemaic dynasty)
busts, paintings, and sculptures, cameo carvings and glass, Ptolemaic and Roman coinage, and reliefs. In Renaissance and Baroque art, she was the subject...
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Tetradrachm (silver) Drachma (silver) Alexandrian coinage Ptolemaic coinage Seleucid coinage Bactrian coinage Tyrian shekel Stater (electrum and silver) Trite...
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attribution to Nectanebo II, however, is not confirmed. Money portal Ptolemaic coinage Schulz, Seidel, 1998. Egypt: The World of the Pharaohs, Editors, Regine...
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Roman Republican currency (redirect from Roman republican coinage)
somewhat reminiscent of the eagle that had consistently been a symbol on Ptolemaic coinage since the very beginning of the century, and it has been suggested...
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monetary standard following Rhodes. Coinage using the standard achieved a wide circulation in the region. Even the Ptolemaic Kingdom, a major Hellenistic state...
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had minted coins in the past. Coinage of Side Achaemenid coinage Bithynian coinage Ptolemaic coinage Seleucid coinage Money portal Numismatics portal...
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Ancient drachma (redirect from Athenian coinage)
Retrieved 2023-06-05. Mørkholm, Otto (1975). "Ptolemaic Coins and Chronology: The Dated Silver Coinage of Alexandria". Museum Notes (American Numismatic...
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Macedonian Greek family (the Ptolemaic dynasty) had intermarried with the Seleucid dynasty. Cleopatra's official coinage (which she would have approved)...
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The history of ancient Greek coinage can be divided (along with most other Greek art forms) into four periods: the Archaic, the Classical, the Hellenistic...
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Reign of Cleopatra (category Ptolemaic Alexandria)
The reign of Cleopatra VII of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt began with the death of her father, Ptolemy XII Auletes, by March 51 BC. It ended with her...
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The Ptolemaic governors of Cyprus ruled the island on behalf of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, from the abolition of the traditional kingdoms on the island in...
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Berenice II of Egypt (category Queens consort of the Ptolemaic dynasty)
queen regnant of Cyrenaica from 258 to 246 BCE and co-regent queen of Ptolemaic Egypt from 246 to 222 BCE as the wife of Ptolemy III. She married Demetrius...
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bringing gold and silver coinage into the city had to give it to the civic authorities in exchange for local bronze coinage. Ptolemaic Egypt operated a similar...
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Ptolemy of Mauretania (category Ptolemaic dynasty)
a member of the Berber Massyles tribe, as well as a descendant of the Ptolemaic dynasty via his mother Cleopatra Selene II. Ptolemy was the son of King...
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Magas of Cyrene (category Ptolemaic governors)
became a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty. He managed to wrest independence for Cyrenaica (in modern Libya) from the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt...
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Ptolemaic didrachm). The Ptolemaic standard was used by the Ptolemaic Kingdom for its silver coinage from 294 BC. It was based on a tetradrachm of 14.26 g and...
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Hellenistic period (section Ptolemaic Kingdom)
signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last major Hellenistic...
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Arsinoe II (category Pharaohs of the Ptolemaic dynasty)
Ἀρσινόη, c. 316 BC – between 270 and 268 BC) was a Ptolemaic queen and co-regent of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of ancient Egypt. She was given the Egyptian...
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by the Ptolemaic. The inscription can also be rendered in English as "the governor Hezekiah". Yehezqiyah coins are part of the Yehud coinage. Governors...
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Mint (facility) (redirect from Coinage mint)
closely with the history of coins. In the beginning, hammered coinage or cast coinage were the chief means of coin minting, with resulting production...
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Greece. The empire's western territories were repeatedly contested with Ptolemaic Egypt—a rival Hellenistic state. To the east, conflict with the Indian...
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Nome (Egypt) (category Government of the Ptolemaic Kingdom)
Ancient Greek rather than the Ancient Egyptian term came about during the Ptolemaic period, when the use of Greek was widespread in Egypt. The availability...
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Lysimachus’ article at Livius.org Ptolemaic Genealogy: Ptolemy Ceraunus Ptolemaic Genealogy: Unknown wife of Ptolemy Ceraunus Ptolemaic Genealogy: Ptolemy ‘the...
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priest) Ptolemaic army Ptolemaic coinage Ptolemaic cult of Alexander the Great Ptolemaic decrees Ptolemaic dynasty Ptolemaic Kingdom Ptolemaic navy Ptolemy...
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Syrian Wars (category Wars involving the Ptolemaic Kingdom)
Syrian Wars were a series of six wars between the Seleucid Empire and the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, successor states to Alexander the Great's empire, during...
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Ptolemy XII Auletes (category Pharaohs of the Ptolemaic dynasty)
Dionysos, lit. 'Ptolemy the new Dionysus' c. 117 – 51 BC) was a king of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt who ruled from 80 to 58 BC and then again from 55 BC...
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