Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire Vol. I, Part 1, no. 59
Canonical URI: http://numismatics.org/pco/id/cpe.1_1.59
Typological Description
- Object Type: Coin
- Date: 306 BC
- Denomination: Tetradrachm
- Manufacture: Struck
- Material: Silver
-
Authority
- Authority: Ptolemy I Soter
-
- Dynasty: Ptolemaic Dynasty
- State: Ptolemaic Empire
-
Geographic
- Mint: Alexandria
- Region: Africa--Africa--Egypt
-
Obverse
- Type: Horned Head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant Headdress, mitra, and scaly aegis, sometimes with tiny Δ on aegis, dotted border
- Portrait: Ptolemy I Soter
-
- Dynasty: Ptolemaic Dynasty
- State: Ptolemaic Empire
-
Reverse
- Legend: AΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟY l.
- Type: Athena Promachos advancing right, brandishing spear and shield, dotted border
- Symbol (Left field): Lorber Monogram 20
, consists of Α and Γ - Symbol (Right field): Lorber Monogram 35
, consists of Α and Τ (above) / Lorber Monogram 68 
, consists of and Ε (below) / eagle on thunderbolt (below)
- Deity: Athena
- TypeSeries: Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire
Examples of this typeDownload CSV
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.75518
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 1
- Diameter (in mm)
- 27.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.38
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1957.172.2019
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 1
- Diameter (in mm)
- 28.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 14.93
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1964.79.56
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 1
- Diameter (in mm)
- 28.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.63
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.75529
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 1
- Diameter (in mm)
- 28.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.59
- Hoard
- IGCH 1675
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.75528
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 1
- Diameter (in mm)
- 30.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.1
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.75524
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 1
- Diameter (in mm)
- 31.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.64
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.75517
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 1
- Diameter (in mm)
- 31.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.74
- Hoard
- IGCH 1667
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.75530
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 11
- Diameter (in mm)
- 28.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 13.66
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.75515
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 11
- Diameter (in mm)
- 30.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.62
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.77194
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 12
- Diameter (in mm)
- 21.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 7.17
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.77196
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 12
- Diameter (in mm)
- 21.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 5.71
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.77195
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 12
- Diameter (in mm)
- 23.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 8.51
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.75520
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 12
- Diameter (in mm)
- 26.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.7
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.75522
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 12
- Diameter (in mm)
- 27.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.61
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1974.26.5296
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 12
- Diameter (in mm)
- 27.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.59
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.75516
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 12
- Diameter (in mm)
- 28.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 13.06
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.75519
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 12
- Diameter (in mm)
- 28.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 13.87
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.75521
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 12
- Diameter (in mm)
- 28.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.54
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.75523
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 12
- Diameter (in mm)
- 28.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.62
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1974.26.5297
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 12
- Diameter (in mm)
- 28.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.6
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1974.26.5298
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 12
- Diameter (in mm)
- 28.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.17
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1974.26.5299
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 12
- Diameter (in mm)
- 28.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 13.01
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.75525
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 12
- Diameter (in mm)
- 29.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.68
- Hoard
- IGCH 1667
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.75527
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 12
- Diameter (in mm)
- 29.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 14.84
- Hoard
- IGCH 1667
Silver Coin, Alexandria, 306 BC 1944.100.75526
- Collection
- American Numismatic Society
- Axis
- 12
- Diameter (in mm)
- 30.0
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.18
- Hoard
- IGCH 1667
[Monnaie : Tétradrachme, Argent, Alexandrie, Égypte, Ptolémée I]
- Collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Identifier
- M 2162
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.61
- Hoard
- IGCH 1671
[Monnaie : Tétradrachme, Argent, Alexandrie, Égypte, Ptolémée I]
- Collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Identifier
- M 2163
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.56
- Hoard
- IGCH 1671
DNB GR-08680
- Collection
- National Numismatic Collection, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam
- Axis
- 12
- Diameter (in mm)
- 30
- Weight (in gr.)
- 14.634
Tetradrachm of Ptolemy I
- Collection
- Harvard Art Museums
- Identifier
- 1.1965.2737
- Axis
- 10
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.69
British Museum: 1875,0506.9
- Collection
- British Museum
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.56
British Museum: 1876,0505.36
- Collection
- British Museum
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.71
British Museum: 1897,0601.8
- Collection
- British Museum
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.58
British Museum: BNK,G.1079
- Collection
- British Museum
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.7
British Museum: BNK,G.1240
- Collection
- British Museum
- Weight (in gr.)
- 15.66
Quantitative Analysis
Average measurements for this coin type:
- Axis
- 9
- Diameter (in mm)
- 27.69
- Weight (in gr.)
- 14.5
Measurement Analysis
Annotations
- Sections
- 41, 123
- Creator
- Newell, Edward Theodore, 1886-1941
- Abstract
- Notebook containing notes on coins of various hoards, along with loose leaves with additional coin lists, notes, and rubbings. A detached label once adhered to the cover of the album reads, "HOARDS II." Includes a letter to Margaret Thompson from Martin Price of the British Museum relating to a joint project on the coins of Alexander the Great (1968). Hoards covered in the notebook are Sardis, Anadol, Aleppo, Ankyra, Aintab, Andhritsena, Abu Hommos, Taranto, Bithynian, Demanhur, Chalcis (Eretria), Calabria, Constantinople, Cyprus (Larnaka), Peloponessos, Drama, Greece (Tiffany), Eretria, Epidaurus, Sparta, Patras, Gesou, Haiffa, Prof. Haynes, Saida, Jandolo, Anadol, Kuft, Kyparissia, Keleler, Karditsa, Messene, Larnaka, Lamia, Latakie, Mosul, Marasesti, Patras, Parthian, Philip II Staters, Ravel, Salonica, Sophikon, Taranto, Tripolitsa, Thebes, Urfa, Gejou, Lamia, and Kyparissia.
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