Illustration
Silver coin (15-drachm) with the portrait of Berenice II on the obverse; the reverse illustrates an overflowing cornucopia between two wreathed caps with the legend naming Queen Berenice, from Alexandria, c. 246-204 BCE.
CNG sale no. 83, Triton XIII, lot 1361. Courtesy of Victor England, Classical Numismatic Group, London.
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References
- Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter. Berenice II Euergetis. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 45-47, pl. 3.3.
- Catherine C. Lorber. Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire. American Numismatic Society, 2018, no. 734.
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