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URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/3902 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | I |
Number | 3902 |
Province | Cyprus |
Region | Cyprus |
City | Uncertain mint(s) on Cyprus |
Reign | Cleopatra VII |
Person (rev.) | Ptolemy XV Caesarion |
Obverse inscription | |
Obverse design | head of Zeus Ammon, right |
Reverse inscription | ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, ΚΥΠΡ (in field, r.) |
Edition | Πτολεμαίου βασιλέως Κύπρ(ος) |
Translation | of Ptolemy, king, Cyprus |
Reverse design | two eagles, left, on thunderbolt; under right eagle's right wing, sceptre? |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average weight | 9.92 g |
Axis | 12 |
Reference | Sv 1876–7 |
Specimens | 3 (3 in the core collections) |
Note | On 2 and 3, no sceptre? 3902-3 are attributed by I. Nicolaou, Paphos II. The Coins from the House of Dionysus (Nicosia, 1990) to Ptolemy, king of Cyprus in 80-58 BC (see no. 419-24). Other issues are attributed there to the reign of Cleopatra: Sv 1843 (nos. 425-61), Sv 1874 (nos. 462-68) and Wa 4838-9 (nos. 469-509. See pp. 114-16. |