★ Extremly Rare ★

Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt Paphos. Ptolemy I Soter
(As satrap) 323-305 BC. Hemiobol AE
Head of Aphrodite Paphia right, wearing tainia
Rev: [ΠΤ]ΟΛΕ, eagle standing left with wings spread on thunderbolt, wreath to inner left.
Lorber CPE B123; Svoronos 80
3.96 gr. 18 mm

This Hemiobol belongs to the earliest bronzes bearing the name of Ptolemy I. In Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire, C. Lorber writes, "The pattern of finds for this issue is consistent with an origin at Palai Paphos, home to the great sanctuary of Aphrodite Cypria..." But, she then, noting that the hemiobol is the only denomination with two varieties, one with Aphrodite wearing a taenia and the other wearing a stephane, writes, "the variety with stephane, not found at Curium, could have been struck at Neo Paphos."