Greek Stater, Ptolemy V Epiphanes, Egypt

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Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Be…
Greek Stater, Ptolemy V Epiphanes, Egypt
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker
Date204 B.C.E. - 180 B.C.E.
MediumBronze
DimensionsDiameter: 1 in. (2.5 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from Hamilton College Archives, Burke Library. Gift of Nathaniel Emmons Paine, Class of 1874
Object numberS2018.1.13
On view
DescriptionThis bronze coin was minted in Alexandria, Egypt during the reign of Ptolemy V Epiphanes. Ptolemy V ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom, the Ancient Greek state in Egypt, from 204 B.C.E. to 180 B.C.E. On its obverse, this coin depicts Zeus wearing a diadem, facing right. On its reverse, it depicts an eagle standing on a thunderbolt with the inscription ΠTOΛEMAIOΥ BAΣIΛEΩΣ, meaning “King Ptolemy.” This coin is a part of the Paine Coin Collection. This teaching collection of 32 Greek and Roman coins was formed by John Alsop Paine (1840 – 1912), Class of 1859, who was an archaeologist with the Palestine Exploration Society and a Curator in the Department of Casts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1889 until 1906. The collection came to the college through John Alsop Paine’s grandson, Nathaniel Emmons Paine (1853 – 1948), Class of 1874.
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Exhibition History 2024-2025
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum," September 7, 2024 –June 8, 2025 (no cat.).
Provenance 2018: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by transfer from College Archives, Burke Library;
?: Hamilton College, by gift of Nathaniel Emmons Paine (1853-1948);
?: Nathaniel Emmons Paine (1853-1948), presumably by inheritance or gift from his grandfather, John Alsop Paine (1840-1912);
?: John Alsop Paine (1840-1912), by excavation.
Inscribed ΠTOΛEMAIOΥ BAΣIΛEΩΣ ("King Ptolemy") on reverse
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Greek Stater, Ptolemy I Soter, Egypt
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: 305-284 B.C.E.
Medium: Silver
Object number: S2018.1.4
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Object number: S2018.1.7
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Denarius, Trajan
Unknown artist, Roman (Ancient)
Date: 98 C.E. - 117 C.E.
Medium: Silver
Object number: S2018.1.27
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Be…
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Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: c. 460 B.C.E.
Medium: Silver
Object number: S2018.1.1
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Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
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Medium: Silver
Object number: S2018.1.12
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Be…
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Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: 413 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.
Medium: Bronze
Object number: S2018.1.16
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Be…
Roman Denarius, L. Antestius Gragulus
Unknown artist, Roman (Ancient)
Date: 137 B.C.E. - 127 B.C.E.
Medium: Silver
Object number: S2018.1.22
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Be…
Greek Stater, Syracuse
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: c. 275 B.C.E. - 215 B.C.E.
Medium: Bronze
Object number: S2018.1.14
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Be…
Roman Denarius, M. Aemilius Scaurus
Unknown artist, Roman (Ancient)
Date: 58 B.C.E
Medium: Silver
Object number: S2018.1.20
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Be…
Greek Stater, Anactorium
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: 350-300 B.C.E.
Medium: Silver
Object number: S2018.1.2
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Be…
Denarius, Paullus Aemilius Lepidus
Unknown artist, Roman (Ancient)
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Medium: Silver
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