New Evidence Concerning a Mint Imitating Ptolemaic Tetradrachms
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: New hoard evidence and a die study allow for the reassessment of a single mint that extensivelyproduced imitative Ptolemaic tetradrachms. Besides the long-known imitations of datedtetradrachms of ‘Akko-Ptolemais from the reign of Ptolemy II, it also minted less familiarimitations, mainly of selected Alexandrian portrait tetradrachms of Ptolemy I. This imitativemint apparently began its activity during the Fourth or Fifth Syrian War and continued in the firstdecades of the second century BCE, perhaps c. 170‒169. In all likelihood located in Ammanitis,it probably operated under the authority of members of the Tobiad family.
Source: Israel Numismatic Research
Authors: Héloïse Aumaître, Catharine C. Lorber
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7220501796