Akko-Ptolemais was an ancient port city on the Phoenician coast. It is also known as Ake, Akko, Ptolemais in Phoenicia, Acre, and several other names.
Greek historians refer to the city as Ake, meaning "cure." According to the Greek myth, Heracles found curative herbs here to heal his wounds. he name was changed to Antiochia Ptolemais shortly after Alexander the Great's conquest, and then to Ptolemais, probably by Ptolemy I Soter,
Around 37 BC, the Romans conquered the Hellenized Phoenician port-city called Akko. It became a colony in southern Roman Phoenicia, called Colonia Claudia Felix Ptolemais Garmanica Stabilis. It stayed Roman for nearly seven centuries until 636 AD, when it was conquered by the Muslim Arabs.
Greek historians refer to the city as Ake, meaning "cure." According to the Greek myth, Heracles found curative herbs here to heal his wounds. he name was changed to Antiochia Ptolemais shortly after Alexander the Great's conquest, and then to Ptolemais, probably by Ptolemy I Soter,
Around 37 BC, the Romans conquered the Hellenized Phoenician port-city called Akko. It became a colony in southern Roman Phoenicia, called Colonia Claudia Felix Ptolemais Garmanica Stabilis. It stayed Roman for nearly seven centuries until 636 AD, when it was conquered by the Muslim Arabs.
Modern location: Acre, Israel
(1)
Antiochus IV
An
AE
serrate half-unit
struck 175 - c. 172 BC
in
Akko-Ptolemais
Obverse: laureate head of Apollo right; monogram left
Reverse: Apollo seated on omphalos left, holding arrow and bow; aphlaston left; BAΣIΛEΩΣ // ANTIOXOY / M
Diameter:
13.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.5 g
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.5 g
http://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.1478.1
SC II 1478.1; HGC 9, 725
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Antiochus IV
An
AE
serrate half-unit
struck 173-162 BC
in
Akko-Ptolemais
Obverse: diademed and radiate head right
Reverse: veiled goddes facing, holding scepter; BAΣIΛEΩΣ // ANTIOXOY
Diameter:
13 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.75 g
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.75 g
http://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.1479
SC II 1479; HGC 9, 726
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Berenike II
An
AE
Tetrachalkon
struck 46-221 BC
in
Akko-Ptolemais
Obverse: BEΡENIKHΣ BAΣIΛIΣΣHΣ or abbreviated, head of Berenike II right, hair in a bun.
Reverse: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, wings closed.
Diameter:
20.87 mm
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 8.78 g
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 8.78 g
Berenike II was the daughter of Magas (king of Cyrene) and Arsinoe/Apama, born in c. 267/6. Berenike II first married or was engaged to Demetrius the Fair (son of Demetrius Poliorcetes and Ptolemais) in c249, as his second marriage, which terminated shortly thereafter by his murder when he was caught in flagrante delictu with her mother Arsinoe/Apama. By him she had no children. Berenike II second marriage was with Ptolemy III (king of Egypt), probably in early 246, by whom she had Ptolemy IV, Magas, Arsinoe III and Berenike, and is presumed to have had an unknown son. Berenike is said to have participated in the Nemean Games and won (between 245 and 241 BC) and to have competed in Olympic games at some unknown date. Soon after her second husband's death in 221 BC, she was murdered at the instigation of her son, Ptolemy IV, with whom she probably was associated in the government.
Svoronos 1055; BMC 17; Sear Greece 7821; Paris 351.
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Caracalla
An
AR
Tetradrachm
struck 215-217 AD
in
Akko-Ptolemais
Obverse: laureate head right; AVT K M A__ANTΩNEINOC__CE_B
Reverse: eagle facing, head left, wreath in beak, pilei topped by stars below; ΔHMAPX·EΞ·VΠATOC·TO·Δ·
Diameter:
28.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 11.8 g
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 11.8 g
No notes for this coin
Prieur 1222