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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 12412448, member: 5682&quot;](I apologize if this is a repost.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1527827[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A wonderful hoard of Ptolemy VI coins has been found in Israel:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1527828[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>“The coins were found in a cave at Wadi Murabba’at, a ravine cut by a seasonal stream which runs from the Judean desert east of Bethlehem past the Herodium down to the Dead Sea.</p><p><br /></p><p>The hoard consists of 15 tetradrachma coins mainly minted by Ptolemy VI Philometor, a Greek king of Ptolemaic Egypt who reigned from 180 to 164 BC and from 163 to 145 BC. Ptolemy VI was the eldest son of King Ptolemy V and Queen Cleopatra I, whose reign was characterised by external conflict with the Seleucid Empire over Syria and by internal conflict with his younger brother for control of the Ptolemaic monarchy.”</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/12/coin-hoard-minted-by-ptolemy-vi-found-in-israel/145562" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/12/coin-hoard-minted-by-ptolemy-vi-found-in-israel/145562" rel="nofollow">https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/12/coin-hoard-minted-by-ptolemy-vi-found-in-israel/145562</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]ii2v5rmAhoI[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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