Coin: æ

Museum number:
6-22441
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
444 (field number)
Accession number:
Acc.699
Description:
Obverse: Zeus Amun, r.; central hole. Reverse: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ; Two eagles on thunderbolt; left; silphion symbol on left. Minted at Cyrenaica. Ptolemy IV or later Svoronos 1158
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Temple enclosure, Tebtunis, Faiyum region
Verbatim coll. place:
Temple enclosure, Tebtunis (Umm el-Buregat)
Production place:
Cyrenaica, Libya
Culture or time period:
Ptolemaic dynasty (332–31 BC)
Collector:
Arthur S. Hunt and Bernard P. Grenfell
Collection date:
1900
Materials:
Copper alloy
Person depicted:
Ptolemy IV Philopator (King of Egypt)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Coins (money)
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
after 221 BC
Accession date:
1935
Department:
Ancient Egypt
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 6 titled Coin: æ, accession number 6-22441, described as Obverse: Zeus Amun, r.; central hole. Reverse: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ; Two eagles on thunderbolt; left; silphion symbol on left. Minted at Cyrenaica. Ptolemy IV or later Svoronos 1158Hearst Museum object 2 of 6 titled Coin: æ, accession number 6-22441, described as Obverse: Zeus Amun, r.; central hole. Reverse: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ; Two eagles on thunderbolt; left; silphion symbol on left. Minted at Cyrenaica. Ptolemy IV or later Svoronos 1158Hearst Museum object 3 of 6 titled Coin: æ, accession number 6-22441, described as Obverse: Zeus Amun, r.; central hole. Reverse: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ; Two eagles on thunderbolt; left; silphion symbol on left. Minted at Cyrenaica. Ptolemy IV or later Svoronos 1158Hearst Museum object 4 of 6 titled Coin: æ, accession number 6-22441, described as Obverse: Zeus Amun, r.; central hole. Reverse: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ; Two eagles on thunderbolt; left; silphion symbol on left. Minted at Cyrenaica. Ptolemy IV or later Svoronos 1158Hearst Museum object 5 of 6 titled Coin: æ, accession number 6-22441, described as Obverse: Zeus Amun, r.; central hole. Reverse: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ; Two eagles on thunderbolt; left; silphion symbol on left. Minted at Cyrenaica. Ptolemy IV or later Svoronos 1158Hearst Museum object 6 of 6 titled Coin: æ, accession number 6-22441, described as Obverse: Zeus Amun, r.; central hole. Reverse: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ; Two eagles on thunderbolt; left; silphion symbol on left. Minted at Cyrenaica. Ptolemy IV or later Svoronos 1158
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Coin: æ, accession number 6-22441, described as Obverse: Zeus Amun, r.; central hole. Reverse: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ; Two eagles on thunderbolt; left; silphion symbol on left. Minted at Cyrenaica. Ptolemy IV or later Svoronos 1158

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