Pentekaidekadrachm - Berenike II Alexandria

This denomination — fifteen drachms on the Ptolemaic standard — was almost certainly struck as a ceremonial or diplomatic issue rather than a coin intended for everyday exchange. Berenike II came to Egypt as queen consort of Ptolemy III Euergetes following the death of her first husband, Demetrius the Fair of Cyrene, whom she reportedly had killed. The Alexandria mint produced these heavy silver pieces in very limited numbers, and surviving examples are exceptionally rare.

Svoronos 988 remains the foundational reference for this type, though Lorber's later corpus refined the die linkage significantly.