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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 8235641, member: 118780&quot;]So, you&#039;re saying that women get one month for history and men take the other eleven? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some Hellenistic examples. For those interested in this history, I highly recommend <i>Women and Monarchy in Macedonia</i> by Elizabeth Donnelly Carney.</p><p><br /></p><p>First woman to mint her own coins.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448689[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">PAPHLAGONIA, Amastris. Circa 285-250 BCE</font></font></p><p><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4"><p style="text-align: center">AR Stater 23mm, 8.88 g, 12h</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Head of Mên right, wearing Phrygian cap decorated with laurel branch and star / Aphrodite seated left, holding in extended right hand Nike, who crowns her with wreath, and cradling lotus-tipped scepter in left arm; rose to left.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Callataÿ, Premier, Group 2, 43 (D17/R21 – this coin); RG 5; HGC 7, 356</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Sigmund Collection.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex CNG March 1999</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex CNG September 2021</p><p></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>One of the earliest women to have her own cult.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448690[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ionien, Ephesos als Arsinoe</font></font></p><p><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4"><p style="text-align: center">AE Dichalkon 287-281 BCE under Aristagoras</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">4.23g</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Vs.: verschleierter Kopf der Arsinoe II. n. r.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Rs.: Hirsch lagert n. l., Kopf n. r.&quot;</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">SNG v. Aulock 1840; Svoronos 134, 883 Taf. 26, 13</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">ex Kölner Münzkabinett</p><p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>Daughter of Lysimachos</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448691[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ionia, Smyrna (as Eurydikeia)</font></font></p><p><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4"><p style="text-align: center">AE 9mm. 0.54g</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Circa 290-287/1 BCE.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Veiled head of Eurydike to right / Tripod, [Ε]ΥΡΥΔΙΚΕΩΝ to left.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Milne, Autonomous 5; SNG Copenhagen 1105. 0.54g, 9mm, 6h</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Nick Collins Collection</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Numismatik Lanz München</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Roma</p><p></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>The far more famous Eurydike (born Adea), who controlled Macedonia for two years and personally led troops into battle.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448688[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Philip III</font></font></p><p><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4"><p style="text-align: center">AR 1/5 Tetradrachm 2.57g</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Minted under Eurydike (Adea), Amphipolis, 318-317 BCE</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Le Rider Taf. 46, 29; SNG ANS 731–735</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Vs.: Kopf des Apollon mit Tänie n. r.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Rs.: Jüngling reitet n. r., unten seitlich gesehener Schild</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Kölner Münzkabinett</p><p></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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