Object class: Money (objects) / Collection place: Northern Africa / Production place: Egypt

Museum number:: 8-5698a
Culture or time period:: Greek Hellenistic Period (323–30 BC) and Ptolemaic dynasty (332–31 BC)
Object class:: Coins (money)
Function:: 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:: 169 BC
Dimensions:: weight 23 grams and linear 32 millimeters
Collector:: H. M. Holbrook
Collection place:: Egypt
Collection date:: 1888
Person depicted:: Zeus (Greek deity)

Museum number:: 8-5490
Culture or time period:: Ptolemaic dynasty (332–31 BC)
Object class:: Coins (money)
Function:: 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:: 194-182 BC
Dimensions:: linear 28 millimeters and weight 15.55 grams
Collector:: Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Collection place:: Egypt
Person depicted:: Cleopatra I (Queen of Egypt) and Isis (Egyptian and Roman deity)

Museum number:: 8-4326
Culture or time period:: Ptolemaic dynasty (332–31 BC)
Object class:: Coins (money) and Octodrachms
Function:: 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:: 270-250 BC
Dimensions:: linear 35 millimeters and weight 34.21 grams
Collector:: Alfred Emerson and Eugene Hambar
Collection place:: Egypt
Person depicted:: Arsinoe I (Queen of Egypt, Consort of Ptolemy II Philadelphus)

Museum number:: 8-4306
Culture or time period:: Ptolemaic dynasty (332–31 BC)
Object class:: Athena, Coins (money), and Tetradrachms
Function:: 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:: 305-283 BC
Dimensions:: weight 15.67 grams and linear 29.23 millimeters
Collector:: Alfred Emerson
Collection place:: Egypt
Collection date:: unknown
Person depicted:: Alexander the Great (King of Macedonia) and Athena (Greek deity)

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