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Decadrachm - Berenike II Alexandria
| Issuer | Ptolemaic Kingdom |
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| Year | 246 BC - 222 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Mint | Alexandria |
| Mintage | ND (246 BC - 222 BC) |
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Berenike II came to the Ptolemaic throne through Cyrene, where she had ruled independently before her marriage to Ptolemy III Euergetes in 246 BC. The decadrachm series honoring her was almost certainly struck to commemorate her deification — a political act that served dynastic interests as much as religious ones, folding her cult into the broader Ptolemaic apparatus of divine kingship that the dynasty had been carefully constructing since Ptolemy I.
Fewer than a handful of specimens are recorded across the major reference collections, with the Lockett and Jameson pieces among the most cited. The sheer weight of gold involved made these coins statements of treasury capacity rather than instruments of everyday exchange.