Coin

29-126-546

Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-126-546
Current Location Greece Gallery - On Display
Culture Ptolemaic
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location Alexandria
Creator Ptolemy VI | Ptolemy VIII
Period Hellenistic Period
Date Made 169-145 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Gold
Iconography Arsinoe II | Veil | Cornucopia
Inscription Language Greek Language
Description

Obverse: Posthumous portrait of Queen Arsinoe II, sister-wife of Ptolemy II, Philadelphus.

Outside Diameter 3 cm
Credit Line Received from various sources, pre-1929

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