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Tetradrachm - Ptolemy VI Philometor Alexandria

Uitgever Ptolemaic Kingdom
Jaar 80 BC - 164 BC
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Referentie(s) SvoronosPt#1446, SNG Copenhagen#299
Beschrijving voorzijde Diademed portrait head of Ptolemy I Soter facing right, rendered in the idealized Hellenistic tradition with elaborately curled hair swept back from the forehead and cascading in thick locks about the neck. The aegis is visible at the truncation of the neck, its scaled texture and gorgoneion detail denoting royal and divine authority. The bold, high-relief modeling of the facial features — prominent brow, aquiline nose, and strong chin — reflects the dynastic portraiture established under the early Ptolemies. The flan is irregular, characteristic of Alexandrian mint production of this period.
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Ptolemy VI Philometor ruled under one of the most chaotic regencies in Ptolemaic history — his mother Cleopatra I held effective power until her death in 176 BC, after which two incompetent ministers drove Egypt into a disastrous war with Seleucid Syria. Antiochus IV invaded twice, and for a period Egypt held the unprecedented situation of three co-rulers simultaneously: Ptolemy VI, his brother Ptolemy VIII, and their sister Cleopatra II. Rome's intervention in 168 BC — a single envoy drawing a circle in the sand around Antiochus and demanding he withdraw before stepping out — ended the crisis without a battle.

The Alexandria mint maintained the closed currency system that had defined Ptolemaic Egypt since the third century, forcing all foreign silver to be reminted at a loss to the holder. Svoronos 1446 falls within the later portion of Philometor's personal reign, after he consolidated sole rule in 163 BC.

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