Coin of Ptolemy IV from a Ptolemaic hoard, 222–205

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Coin of Ptolemy IV from a Ptolemaic hoard, Ptolemaic Period, 222–205 , From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Asasif, Birabi, 1915–16, Bronze, Diam. cm, A hoard of 162 Ptolemaic coins that contained issue of Ptolemy II, III, and IV, but apparently no later king, was discovered in a jar buried in a pit in front of a large Ptolemaic tomb in Thebes. Accumulations of coins were not usually burial offering; these coins were likely buried in order to be hidden by someone who failed to return to recover them

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