File:Egypt - queen Arsinoe II - 253-246 BC - silver dekadrachm - head of Arsinoe II - double cornucopiae - München SMS 02.jpg

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English: object type: Greek coin

- production technique: struck - issuing authority: ruler: Egypt, queen Arsione II - ΑΡΣΙΝΟΗ (ruling with king Ptolemaios II Philadelphos - ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΣ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟΣ) - mint: Alexandreia - period / date: ca. 253-246 BC (posthumously) - material: silver - denomination: dekadrachm - description obverse: head of Arsinoe II wearing stephane and veil, small ram´s horn at her ear, head of lotos-sceptre on the top of her head - inscription (Greek): MM - description reverse: double cornucopiae (dikeras), filled, decorated and bound together with tainia - inscription (Greek): ΑΡΣΙΝΟΗΣ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟΥ - museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Münzsammlung

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