mnaeion

English

Noun

mnaeion (plural mnaeia)

  1. (historical) A Ptolemaic gold octadrachm.
    • 2021, Andrea M. Berlin, ‎Paul J. Kosmin, The Middle Maccabees (page 151)
      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, […]
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