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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 8279771, member: 104887&quot;]Hi All,</p><p><br /></p><p>My earliest Gazan Ptolemaic tetradrachm, 258/257 BCE.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1462190[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Date: Year ΚΗ (28) = 258/257 BCE</p><p>References: Paris, Z.2884, 256 (Dattari coll.). Specimen with only guide dots cut for Gaza monogram (<span style="color: #ff4d4d">THIS</span>) is noted in Lorber&#039;s CPE. Obverse die link with CPE 684.</p><p><br /></p><p>From Hoover&#039;s &quot;<i>The Dated Coinage of Gaza in Historical Context (264/3 BC - AD 241/2</i>&quot; (SNR, vol 86, 2007): &quot;No coinage appears to have been struck by the city following the Macedonian conquest, but during the long Ptolemaic domination of Coele Syria (281-198 BCE), the mint of Gaza struck coins (octadrachms, tetradrachms, and bronzes) under Ptolemy II Philopator (281-246 BCE) and Ptolemy III Euergetes (246-222 BCE). The regnal years 25 (262/1 BCE), 28-33 (259/8-254/3 BCE), and 36-38 (251/0-249/8 BCE) that date the Gazaean silver and the year 29 that dates the gold of Ptolemy II suggest that these coins were produced largely to support military operations against the Seleucids during the Second Syrian War (261-253 BCE), as well as to pay the expenses of the peace agreement that ended the conflict. As part of the settlement, Ptolemy married his daughter, Berenice Syrus, to Antiochus II Theos and sent her to her new husband along with so much gold and silver that she received the popular epithet, Phernophoros (&quot;Dowry-bringer&quot;).&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>From Lorber&#039;s <i>CPE</i>: &quot;In 261/0 Sidon, Ptolemais, Ioppe, and Gaza adopted the Tyrian practice of producing annual, dated issues of tetradrachms with identifiable mintmarks, supplemented by occasional mnaieia in the name of Arsinoe Philadelphus. The five mints thus collaborated to provide a stock of coinage with highly consistent features. The beginning of this province-wide reform in 261/0 suggests a connection with the outbreak of the Second Syrian War and the wide dispersion of Syro-Phoenician tetradrachms in Greece and throughout the Ptolemaic kingdom probably indicates that this coinage was used in the pay of mercenaries.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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