Ptolemaic Kingdom. Ptolemy III Euergetes (246-222 BC). Æ (No reserve price)

Ptolemaic Kingdom.
Ptolemy III Euergetes (246-222 BC).
Æ (Bronze, 12 mm, 1.81 g).

Obv: Head of Zeus Ammon right, wearing tainia.
Rev: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ. Eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt. Trident in left field.

Reference: Lorber, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire, vol. 1.2, B434.

Ptolemy III married Berenike II of Kyrene, bringing Kyrenaica into the Ptolemaic realm. When Antiochos II died, he invaded Syria to support his sister Berenike and her son, opening the Third Syrian War, and pressed on to take Babylon. He restored to Egypt statues once carried off by the Persians, a deed honoured in the cult of the Benefactor Gods. Under him the Ptolemaic kingdom reached the height of its military and economic power.

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