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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikey Zee, post: 2829487, member: 72818&quot;]Very attractive coin!!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll pile on with a bronze of Cleopatra I (Paphos?, not Alexandria?) 201-176 BC that I purchased from A-Noob.....Jeez, how many Cleo&#039;s were there anyway <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently, she was known as.....</p><p><br /></p><p>Cleopatra I Syra, (died 176 bc), queen of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Egypt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Egypt" rel="nofollow">Egypt</a> (193–176 bc), wife of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ptolemy-V-Epiphanes" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ptolemy-V-Epiphanes" rel="nofollow">Ptolemy V Epiphanes</a> and regent for her minor son, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ptolemy-VI-Philometor" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ptolemy-VI-Philometor" rel="nofollow">Ptolemy VI Philometor</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Daughter of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antiochus-III-the-Great" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antiochus-III-the-Great" rel="nofollow">Antiochus III the Great</a> of the Syrian Empire, Cleopatra was married to Ptolemy V in 193 as part of the Peace of Lysimacheia, concluding warfare and border conflicts between Syria and Egypt. She brought as her dowry the revenues (but apparently not the ownership) of Coele-Syria, a land that Egypt had long sought to recover; and the total agreement helped to ensure Egypt’s neutrality in Syria’s continuing struggles with the Romans. When Ptolemy V died (180), Cleopatra became the true ruler of Egypt as regent for her young son, and she ruled equitably, keeping peace with Syria while doing nothing to alienate Rome, and thereby kept Egypt free of invasion.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]666606[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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