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Dichalkon - Ptolemaios VI
| Issuer | Ptolemaic Kingdom |
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| Year | 180 BC - 176 BC |
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| Weight | 15.2 g |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ptolemy VI came to the throne as a child, with his mother Cleopatra I holding real power until her death around 176 BC — the very moment this issue's production window closes. The regency period was politically unstable enough that coinage continuity itself became a statement of administrative control, and bronze denominations like this one were the workhorses of everyday Egyptian market exchange, circulating heavily in the Nile Delta and the Fayyum.
The Svoronos 1384 attribution places this firmly within a well-documented but chronologically compressed series, struck before the catastrophic Sixth Syrian War reshaped Ptolemaic finances entirely.