Ptolemaic Kingdom. Ptolemy III Euergetes (246-222 BC). Obol Telmessos mint, Lycia (No reserve price)

Ptolemaic Kingdom.
Ptolemy III Euergetes (246-222 BC).
Telmessos mint, Lycia.
Obol (Bronze, 24 mm, 11.65 g).

Obv: Horned head of Zeus-Ammon right, wearing taenia with basileion.
Rev: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ - ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ("Of King Ptolemy"). Eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt; tripod in left field.

Reference: Lorber, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire I.2, type B436; Svoronos, Ta Nomismata tou Kratous ton Ptolemaion, 791; SNG Copenhagen 476.

Ptolemy III, son of Ptolemy II and Arsinoe I, came to the throne in 246 BC and married Berenike II, uniting Cyrenaica with his kingdom. He invaded Syria to support his sister Berenike, who was murdered in Antioch, and his campaign reached Babylon in the Third Syrian War. The Canopus Decree of 238 BC honoured him as Euergetes, the Benefactor. Under him the Ptolemaic kingdom reached the height of its military and economic power, before his death in 222 BC.

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