Magas (governor of Cyrene under Ptolemy I of Egypt)

Mints

Governor of Cyrenaica under Ptolemy I of Egypt. He subsequently rebelled against Ptolemy II.

Die Studies

Item	Image	Metal	Weight
Euhesperides (Ptolemy I), gold, staters (Ptolemy I/quadriga of elephants) (305-294 BCE)		Gold	1,392 kg
Cyrene (Ptolemy I), gold, staters (Ptolemy I/quadriga of elephants) (305-294 BCE)		Gold	5,921 kg

Overstriking coins

Item	Overstriking coin	Metal	Date	Overstruck type
2804 - Cyrene (Magas) (AE Apollo/lyra) over uncertain type (Münz Zentrum, 168, Dec. 2013, 257)		Bronze	282 BC JL
24342 - Cyrene (Magas) (AE Apollo/lyra) over uncertain type (Roma Numismatics, EA 107, March 2023, 533)		Bronze	282 BC JL

Overstruck coins

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Magas, governor of Cyrene

Type ᵖ	Person
Nomisma ID	magas_cyrene
Links	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q878392 http://dbpedia.org/resource/Magas_of_Cyrene https://www.freebase.com/m/03xzj_

Literature

• BMC Cyrenaica (2 mentions)
• Roche-Lévêque 2024 (2 mentions)
• Svoronos 1890 (2 mentions)
• CPE I (2 mentions)