Lepton/AE 12 (fracture fragment)?

Issuer (?)Likely issued by Ake-Ptolemais

Expedition The Joint Expedition to Samaria

Place of IssueAke-Ptolemais, Phoenicia, Asia

ProvenanceSamaria, Palestine

Date2nd Century BCE (126/5 BCE)?

MediumAE (bronze/base metal)

Dimensions12 mm, 1.27 g, Axis: Indeterminate

CultureSeleucid

DescriptionCondition: P/G-
Ruler/Minting Authority: Ake-Ptolemais?
City-State/Region/Mint: Ake-Ptolemais, Phoenicia
Obverse & Reverse

- Obverse -

Indecipherable; Conjoined heads of Dioskouroi laureate, right (effaced)?

- Reverse -

Cornucopia containing fruit; on right downwards, ANTIOXEΩNTΩN EN ΠTOΛEMAIΔI IΠP (?); on left downwards IEPAΣ AΣYAΣY (?); in left field, monogram or letter (effaced).

Object number1982.7.166

ProvenanceHarvard Samaria Crowfoot-Kenyon Excavation 1931-1933.

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