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Shipping costs: Check item See eligibility description and [Image] payment [Image] instructions or contact seller for details [Go down][ ]Shipping and payment details [Image] [Image]Description [Image] [Image] [Image] [Image] Please click the banner above to go to our eBay "AboutMe" home page. presents Classical Cash's 237th eBay Sale! [Image] [Image] If the photos above do not load, click here for Obverse and click here for Reverse ORC3746 Cleopatra Cyprus AE27, VF, chip. Time of Cleopatra VII, Æ27 diobol, (10.87g) Paphos Mint, c. 51-39 BC, 12:00 die axis, Laureate head of Zeus right, of Cypriot style. / Partial Greek legend, presumably, ''[Ptolemy, King].'' Two eagles standing left, palm branch before. SNG Cop.-; BMC-; Svor.1876 (Cleopatra)- Paphos II-, RPC-, RPC Supplement-. Some VF detail but very unevenly struck, brown patina, large chip. As suggested by the laurel wreath, Svoronos is correct about the time period. This type precedes the famous Cleopatra holding her baby diobol. The largest bronze denomination, circulating in Cyprus during the time of Cleopatra, was a bronze unit. This coinage has the same form as those of her predecessors: the diademed and horned head of Zeus right paired with reverse of two eagles, and a symbol before. The latest style Zeus is laureate, rather than diademed and horned. On one laureate Zeus issue, there is a star before Zeus. The exact relationship between the bronze full-unit and the silver tetradrachm is not known with absolute certainty. However, calculating backward from the time of Egyptian bronze coinage of Augustus as valued by Milne, this was a diobol. [Image] Die axis is 12:00. This denomination was struck on broad, [Image] thin flans, with beveled edges. The Greek legend is ''Ptolemy King.'' Most Ptolemaic coins have this legend. The two eagles on the reverse are accepted by some experts as representative of the two rulers on the throne of the Ptolemaic Kingdom. There are two periods of joint rule in the late Ptolemaic Kingdom that saw the production of bronze coins with two eagles: 1) Ptolemy IX and X as co-rulers, and 2) Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XIII to XV as her co-ruler. During the time of Ptolemy IX and X, the half-unit averages 9.6 grams. Early in the reign of Cleopatra, a half-unit weighed an average of 6 grams. The use of a broad, thin flan is consistent with a later date attribution, while a shorter, thicker flan would be typical of the joint reign of Ptolemy IX and X. The ten examples of the full-unit with various symbols found at the dig at Paphos II may be a mix of both dual-reign periods. After 39 BC, a new form of the full-unit was struck. The obverse features a fairly crude diademed and draped bust of Cleopatra VII as Aphrodite, facing right, scepter behind her shoulder, holding an infant as Eros in her arms. References call the infant Ptolemy XV (Caesarion). (RPC 3901; Sear 7957; BMC 6, page 122, #2-3; Svor. 1874.) The association of Cleopatra with Aphrodite was not particular to these coins. Julius Caesar had placed a gilded bronze statue of Cleopatra in the Forum Julium beside the cult-statue of Venus Genetrix. Plutarch wrote, ''Cleopatra herself reclined beneath a canopy of cloth of gold, dressed in the character of Venus, as we see her in paintings . . .'' (Antony 25.1-3). Cleopatra's connection with Aphrodite may be responsible for her reputation as a beautiful woman. CLICK HERE TO E-MAIL US before you bid, if you have a question about this item CLICK HERE to see ALL the items in this sale CLICK HERE for our Terms of Sale and your Payment Options [Image] [Image] [Image]Shipping and payment details[Image] [Image] Services available Check item description and payment instructions or contact seller for details. 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