Coin Portraying King Ptolemy of Cyprus
Ancient Greek (Minted in Paphos, Cyprus)
68-67 BCE
- Medium
- Silver
- Classification
- Coin
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 2.5 cm (1 in.)
- Culture
- Cyprus
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Gift of William F. Dunham
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The front of this coin portrays King Ptolemy, facing right and wearing a diadam. A decorative border of dots is partially preserved.
On the back an eagle stands on thunderbolt, surrounded by a Greek inscription.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
