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[Image] [Image][Image][Image] [Image][Image] Winning bid: US $200.00 [Image] [Image]Seller information n_VI Ended: Nov-22-04 12:26:18 PST oldromancoins.com[Image] ( 2039[Feedback score is 1,000 to 4,999])[Image] Start time: Nov-12-04 12:26:18 PST [Member is a PowerSeller][Image][about me] History: 2 bids (US $200.00 starting bid) Feedback Score: 2039 [Image]Positive Feedback: 99.4% Winning bidder: woodlake4[Image] ( 283 [Image] Member since Aug-29-98 in United States n_VI [Feedback score is 100 to 499]) Read feedback comments [Image] Add to Favorite Sellers Ask seller a question Item location: Springfield, Massachusetts View seller's other items United States [Image] [Image] Ships to: Worldwide [PayPal Buyer Protection -- Up to $1,000 coverage] PayPal Buyer Protection [New] [Image][Image] Shipping costs: Check item description and payment [Image] [Image]Free Coverage now up to instructions or contact seller for $1,000. See eligibility. details [Image] [Image] [Go down][ ]Shipping, payment details and return policy [Image] [Image]Financing available [Image]  [Image] [Image] [Image] Only $10 per month [Image] if you use PayPal Buyer Credit. Subject to credit approval. US residents only. See . repayment details. See details [Image] [Image] [Image]Description [Image] [Image] [Image] [Image] Classical Cash's 240th eBay Sale! [Image] [Image] If the photos above do not load, click here for Obverse and click here for Reverse ORC4048 CLEOPATRA VII Cyprus AE10 VF Cleopatra VII, AE10 (quarter obol), Paphos Mint, Cyprus, struck. c. 38-30 BC, Draped and diademed bust of Cleopatra VII right. / Greek legend, "Ptolemy, King" Double cornucopia. Svoronos 1160. A 1/8 fraction of the very rare but more commonly published diobol with obverse Cleopatra holding her baby. ''Cyprus is second to none of the islands of the Mediterranean; It is rich in wine and oil, produces grain in abundance, and possesses extensive copper mines . . . .'' Strabo (64 BC - 23? AD) Our word ''Copper'' may have its root in Cyprus (Kupros), which, along with grain, was a major export of the island throughout ancient times. Cyprus also provided the region with craftsmen and merchants. Cyprus came under the rule of the Ptolemies of Egypt after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. It was lost in 305 BC but regained in 294 BC when Ptolemy I Soter bested Demetrios Poliorketes for control of the island. Cyprus remained under the control of the Ptolemies for more than 235 years, until 58 BC when P Clodius Pulcher (brother of Appius Claudius Pulcher) persuaded the Senate to approve the annexation of the island (Lex Clodia de Cypro). The Senate sent the famed orator Cato (M. Porcius Cato) to [Image] enforce the annexation. Ptolemy the Cypriot, the Lagid, [Image] Ptolemaic Governor of Cyprus, and brother of Ptolemy XII, committed suicide rather than accept the empty honor “High Priest of Aphrodite” that Cato offered him. The loss of Cyprus was a direct cause of riots that drove Ptolemy XII out of Alexandria. He fled to Cyprus and other Roman controlled areas. Cato, appointed the first Roman governor (quaestor pro praetor) of the island, seized the treasury, presumably the real reason for Rome's interest in the island. Plutarch claimed that Cato sold the treasury for 7000 talents of silver, and that he took more treasures to Rome from Cyprus than Pompey the Great brought back from all his wars. Cyprus was caught up in the Roman Civil Wars of the first century BC, with several of its major figures involved in some way in the island's affairs. Pompey was on the island while marshalling his forces for battle against Julius Caesar. After Pompey’s defeat in 48 BC, Julius Caesar restored control of the island to Ptolemaic control, briefly under Cleopatra VII, in joint rule with her sister Arsinoe IV and her brothers Ptolemy XIII and XIV. Ptolemy XIII was drowned in 47 BC in Egypt. In 44 BC, Cleopatra became the virtual “sole” ruler of Cyprus in association with her baby son by Caesar, Caesarion, who ruled as Ptolemy XV. During the Roman Civil War, the Ptolemaic Fleet left Cyprus to fight on the side of Cassius but was held back by poor weather. The return of Cyprus to Cleopatra was re-confirmed by Marc Antony in 34 BC with the famous ''Donations of Alexandria.'' After the battle of Actium in 31 BC, Octavian visited Cyprus. He declared the island to be once again a Roman province, now under his personal control, his private estate. 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