★ Berenike II ★

Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. Uncertain mint on the Levantine Coast. Berenike II, wife of Ptolemy III 244-221 BC.
Bronze Æ

19 mm, 9,05 g

[BEPENIKHΣ BAΣIΛIΣΣHΣ], diadened abd draped bust of Berenike II to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑ[ΙΟΥ], eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt.

very fine

SNG Copenhagen 460; Svoronos 1055.

From the Tareq Hani collection