Nectanebo II, last native pharaoh of Egypt, issued bronze coinage in the Levantine territories under Egyptian control — an accommodation to Greek mercantile practice rather than any domestic Egyptian tradition. Pharaonic Egypt had no indigenous coinage culture; these small bronzes exist because the eastern Mediterranean economy demanded them.
Nectanebo II, last native pharaoh of Egypt, issued bronze coinage in the Levantine territories under Egyptian control — an accommodation to Greek mercantile practice rather than any domestic Egyptian tradition. Pharaonic Egypt had no indigenous coinage culture; these small bronzes exist because the eastern Mediterranean economy demanded them.