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Numismata hellenica: a catalogue of Greek coins; with notes, a map ...

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62 KINGS OF EGYPT.<br />

Nfetiil<br />

M<br />

Size<br />

5<br />

5<br />

Weight<br />

M 4+ 101-5<br />

M<br />

M 235-7<br />

M 61<br />

Another similar ; but in field to I., TY in men.<br />

Another similar ; in field to I., AX in mon.<br />

Note.—The only reason for placing these <strong>coins</strong> to Ptolemy Alexander is, that in general the Mace-<br />

donian kings <strong>of</strong> that name delighted in assimilating themselves to Alexander the Great by an obverse<br />

like that <strong>of</strong> his <strong>coins</strong>, or by an elephant's scalp, appropriate to Alexander as conqueror <strong>of</strong> India.<br />

PTOLEM^US X.,<br />

Son <strong>of</strong> Pfolemwus IX.<br />

Note.—He was sent from Rome by Sylla, in b.c. 80, to marry Berenice, daughter <strong>of</strong> Ptolemeeus<br />

VIII., whom the Alexandrians had declared queen on the death <strong>of</strong> Ptolemy Alexander. Nineteen<br />

days after the marriage he murdered her, for which the Alexandrians forth<strong>with</strong> put him to death.<br />

In these cousins the legitimate Ptolemaean family was extinct.<br />

PTOLEMiEUS XI. (Auletes),<br />

Illegitimate son <strong>of</strong> Ptolem

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