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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]

Svoronos' catalogue number 1001 describes tetradrachms with a portrait of Ptolemy I, a cornucopia symbol in reverse left field, and the legend ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΣΩTHPΩΣ SOTHPOS. This category covers issues of more than one mint. They are partially disambiguated in Coinage of the Ptolemaic Empire (2018). The disambiguation is completed here. The present study also provides new information about patterns of die use and circulation, estimates the volume of the emissions, and considers their role in financing the Third Syrian War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the co-regency of Ptolemy VI and VIII, dated silver coinage was struck principally at Salamis, Citium and Paphos but also at Amathus and an uncertain mint or mints. We present a new die study of the coinage of the three main mints, which was less sporadic than previous studies indicated. The results have implications for the contemporaneous minting operations at Alexandria. The coinage of this period documents a surprising resilience of the Ptolemaic Empire in the wake of the Sixth Syrian War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the study of a group of Ptolemaic tetradrachms struck from a single obverse die that was first used at Sidon in regnal year 23 of Ptolemy III, and after two varieties were produced there, was transferred to 'Akko-Ptolemais where it was used for at least another seven varieties continuing into the reign of Ptolemy IV. The obverse die was recut several times over its unusually long career, and at Ptolemais was paired with reverse dies that were also recut, and which display an exceptional alternating pattern of controls. The chronology, circumstances and sizes of these issues are examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]