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Mnaeion - Ptolemy VI Kition
| Issuer | Ptolemaic Kingdom |
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| Year | 159 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Veiled and diademed head of Arsinoe II in right profile, rendered in fine Hellenistic style with detailed veil drapery falling in layered folds behind the neck. The effigy is encircled by a beaded border. The facial features are finely modeled, reflecting the idealized portraiture characteristic of Ptolemaic royal coinage. No legend appears on the obverse. |
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| Reverse description | A double cornucopia (dikeras) tied with a fillet and filled with fruits and grain ears, positioned upright in the central field. The legend ΑΡΣΙΝΟΗΣ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟΥ is inscribed to the left and right of the cornucopia, with the regnal year notation LΚΓ (year 23) and the mint mark ΚΙ (Citium) appearing in the lower field. The composition is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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Kition, on the southern coast of Cyprus, served as one of the Ptolemaic kingdom's key administrative and minting centers during Ptolemy VI's reign. The absence of a Svoronos or SNG Copenhagen reference number is telling — this piece either represents an unrecorded die pairing or a type so rarely encountered that it fell outside the standard corpora entirely. Ptolemy VI was engaged in costly military campaigns in Coele-Syria through the 170s and 160s, and gold coinage from Cypriot mints in this period was almost certainly tied directly to military financing rather than general circulation.