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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;1934 Wreath Crown, post: 3751472, member: 76965&quot;]Picked up this Ptolemy II Octodrachm recently.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ptolemaic Egypt was the only Greek-ruled kingdom to strike large quantities of enormous gold coins weighing nearly an ounce. This denomination, today usually called an octodrachm, was worth 100 silver drachms, or one mina, a small fortune in ancient times. The Greco-Egyptians called the 100-mina piece a mnaieion (min-EYE-on). The first mnaieions carried four royal portraits -- Ptolemy II and his sister-wife on the obverse with the epithet adelphon (&quot;sibling lovers&quot;), backed with the portraits of his parents, Ptolemy I Soter and Berenice I, now identified as theon (&quot;gods&quot;).</p><p>I like the coin because it has 4 royal portraits <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This particular one is an AU* 5/5 AND 5/5 and possibly my last big ticket (at least for my budget) ancient for the year</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1005931[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1005932[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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