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Tetradrachm - Ptolemy II Philadelphos Sidon
| Issuer | Ptolemaic Kingdom |
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| Year | 285 BC - 246 BC |
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| Currency | Ptolemaic drachm (second reform of Ptolemy I Soter, circa 294 – 272 BC) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΣΙ (Translation: King Ptolemy (II)) |
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| Mint | Sidon |
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Sidon was among the most productive mints in the Ptolemaic network during Philadelphos' reign, its output driven by the demands of maintaining a Mediterranean fleet and garrisoning the Levantine coast after the First and Second Syrian Wars against the Seleucids. Ptolemy II centralized the coinage standard aggressively, replacing the earlier Phoenician weight system with the reduced Ptolemaic standard — a deliberate economic barrier that forced merchants in Egypt's sphere to exchange foreign silver at a loss.
The Lorber corpus identifies this as an early Sidonian emission, before the mint's later administrative reorganization under Ptolemy III.