Berenice II Euergetis (267 – 221 BCE “Berenice the Benefactress”) was queen regnant of Cyrenaica from 258 to 246 BCE and queen of Ptolemaic Egypt from 246 to 222 BCE as the wife of Ptolemy III. She is sometimes considered co-regent of her Ptolemaic husband.
After the engraving from “Iconographie grecque” (Pl.54) by Ennio Quirino Visconti published in 1808 in Paris, depicting the ancient gold coin.