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Octochalkon - Kleopatra VII
| Issuer | Ptolemaic Kingdom |
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| Year | 51 BC - 30 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm (204 – 30 BC) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗΣ ΚΛΕΟΠΑΤΡΑΣ Π |
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| Mintage | ND (51 BC - 30 BC) |
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Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for two decades while managing simultaneous entanglements with Rome's two most powerful men, yet her bronze coinage — produced at Alexandria — circulated in a kingdom already hollowed out by debt to Rome and internal dynastic conflict. The Ptolemaic monetary system had been declining for generations by the time she issued these pieces, with bronze increasingly substituting for the silver tetradrachms that had once defined the dynasty's commercial reach.
The octochalkon denomination places this squarely in the late Ptolemaic fractional bronze sequence. Svoronos 1871 assigns it to her sole reign period following the death of Ptolemy XIII in 47 BC.