1. New Evidence Concerning a Mint Imitating Ptolemaic Tetradrachms.
- Author
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AUMAÎTRE, HÉLOÏSE and LORBER, CATHARINE C.
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FORGERY , *SYRIANS , *IMITATIVE behavior - Abstract
New hoard evidence and a die study allow for the reassessment of a single mint that extensively produced imitative Ptolemaic tetradrachms. Besides the long-known imitations of dated tetradrachms of 'Akko-Ptolemais from the reign of Ptolemy II, it also minted less familiar imitations, mainly of selected Alexandrian portrait tetradrachms of Ptolemy I. This imitative mint apparently began its activity during the Fourth or Fifth Syrian War and continued in the first decades of the second century BCE, perhaps c. 170-169. In all likelihood located in Ammanitis, it probably operated under the authority of members of the Tobiad family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021