A Note on the Ptolemaic Bronzes in Series 6

• Autores: R.A. Hazzard
• Localización: Chronique d'Egypte, ISSN 0009-6067, Vol. 91, Nº. 181, 2016, págs. 135-144
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • Towards the end of Ptolemy IV�s reign (222-205/4 BC), the scribes in Egypt changed their method of account from one using (silver) obols and drachms to one using copper drachms and talents. About the same time, the monarch retired his big bronzes - what numismatists now call Series 3 to 5 (2) - and eventually replaced them with Series 6, a bronze coinage of much smaller weights and modules.