mnaeion

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noun

A Ptolemaic gold octadrachm.

Scrabble 9

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nounmnaeion (plural mnaeia)

plural mnaeia

  1. historicalA Ptolemaic gold octadrachm.
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    An extraordinary material reflection of close Ptolemaic-Seleucid relations was the gift, in 190 BCE or shortly thereafter, of a Ptolemaic gold mnaeion, the largest regularly minted gold issue in the Greek world, conveyed by some high Ptolemaic official to a similarly situated Seleucid counterpart, […]

    2021, Andrea M. Berlin, Paul J. Kosmin, The Middle Maccabees, page 151

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