Decadrachm - Arsinoe II Alexandria

Arsinoe II died around 268 BC, yet Ptolemy II continued striking coins in her name for decades afterward — a posthumous deification program without precedent in the Greek world. This decadrachm belongs to that commemorative series, issued under the authority of her brother-husband as part of a calculated effort to establish a dynastic cult centered on the royal family itself. The denomination alone signals ceremony over commerce; a ten-drachm piece was never casual currency.

The Lorber 1.1 classification places this among the earliest emissions of the posthumous series, minted at Alexandria within roughly a decade of her death.