85-40 BCE 20.79mm 4.49g
Obverse: Laureate head of Zeus right, with countermark of head right
Reverse: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ / ΤΕΤΡΑΡΧΗ, eagle flying right, holding wreath in beak; monogram above tail
HGC 9, 1441
Ex Marcel Burstein
Ex Colosseum Coin Exchange 31 (February 1988), lot 20
Ex Marc Breitsprecher
Most of what we know about the tetrarchy ruled over by Ptolemaios is from the historian Josephus. He conducted a number of wars in Lebanon, Judea, and Syria.
40-36 BCE 19.88mm 4.32g
Obverse: Diademed head of Lysanias right, monogram below chin
Reverse: ΛYΣANIOY TETPAP-ΧOY KAI APXIEPEΩΣ, Athena standing left, holding Victory and resting hand on grounded shield, monogram in right field
RPC I 4770
Lysanias was the son of Ptolemaios. In 33 BCE, he was killed by Marc Antony at the instigation of Kleopatra. The kingdom then fell to his son, Zenodoros.
85 BCE
Ptolemy son of Mennaios becomes tetrarch of Iturea and Chalcis.
40 BCE
Death of Ptolemy son of Mennaios. His son Lysanias becomes tetrarch of Iturea and Chalcis.
33 BCE
Lysanias, tetrarch of Iturea and Chalcis, is put to death by Marc Antony.
23 BCE
Zenodoros, son of Lysander, becomes tetrarch of Iturea and Chalcis.
20 BCE
Zenodoros suffers a ruptured intestine and dies, ending the tetrarchy of Iturea and Chalcis.