Tetrobol

Kyrene's gold coinage of this period reflects the city's position under the shifting control of Ptolemy I, who seized the region around 322 BC and installed a series of governors before absorbing it more firmly into the nascent Ptolemaic sphere. The tetrobol denomination in gold is notably rare — Kyrene's gold issues of the late fourth century are poorly represented in public collections, and the variations noted against both SNG Copenhagen and the Naville corpus suggest this die pairing sits outside the main documented sequences.