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Cyprus, Cleopatra VII, 51-30BC, Æ17 (2.49g) Neopaphos Mint, Laureate head
of Zeus to right. / No legend. Zeus standing head to right, holding ears of
corn on single stalk(?) in right hand and a scepter in the left hand; star
above head. BMC-; Svor.-; SNG Cop.-; RPC-; RPC Supplement; Cox, Excavations
at Curium, 128; Lichochka, Un type de Zeus sur les monnaies hellenistiques
de Nea paphos, 5-6 (dated to mid-1st century BC); Museum of the History of
Cypriot Coinage, Coin catalogue, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation,
Nicosia 1996 Ch11, coin #35 (as Cleopatra VII). Near EF, green patina.

The attribution is taken from the above Bank of Cyprus
catalog. This coin likely circulated as a hemi-obol, a half of the broad
thin obols RPC3903 and a quarter of the rare diobol, RPC3902, with a very
similar reverse type. A coin of 200 BC would have a constant weight
standard (cf. Svor. 1008 for a Cyprus mint coin of the 200 BC period)
because bronze was valued at its full metal weight. By the time of
Cleopatra, bronze was a token coinage.