Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire Vol. I, Part 1, no. 31

Typological Description

• Object Type: Coin

• Date Range

  • From Date: 318 BC
  • To Date: 317 BC
• Denomination: Tetradrachm
• Manufacture: Struck
• Material: Silver

• Authority

  • Authority: Ptolemy I Soter

• Geographic

  • Mint: Memphis
  • Region: Africa--Africa--Egypt

• Obverse

  • Type: Horned head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant headdress, dotted border
  • Portrait: Ptolemy I Soter

• Reverse

  • Legend: AΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟY r.
  • Type: Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle on extended right hand and resting left on scepter, feet on footrest, dotted border
  • Symbol: thunderbolt (Left field)
  • Deity: Zeus
• TypeSeries: Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire