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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Ptolemaic Egypt| > GP84191
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy I Soter, 305 - 282 B.C.
|Ptolemaic| |Egypt|, |Ptolemaic| |Kingdom| |of| |Egypt,| |Ptolemy| |I| |Soter,| |305| |-| |282| |B.C.|, The Δ engraver was responsible for some coins of the highest artistry struck at Alexandria, including one of the iconic elephant's skin headdress tetradrachms. His work began early in the reign of Ptolemy I and is believed to have extended into the early reign of Ptolemy II. A flawless example of this type, struck with these same Δ engraver dies, sold for $29,150 plus fees in 2008!

Rare overstrike! Overstruck over an Alexander tetradrachm, which had a banker's mark. Under-type visible at 4:00 on the obverse.
GP84191. Silver tetradrachm, Lorber CPE 191, Svoronos 236, BMC Ptolemies -, Weiser -, Noeske -, SNG Cop -, SNG Milan -, Malter -, aEF, fine style, overstruck with under-type effects on face, banker's mark, marks and scratches, small edge chip, Alexandria mint, weight 14.380g, maximum diameter 29.9mm, die axis 0o, 294 B.C.; obverse diademed head of Ptolemy I right wearing aegis, Δ (artist's signature) behind the ear; reverse ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, eagle standing left on fulmen (thunderbolt), head left, wings closed, XA/HP monogram (control symbol) left; ex Forum (2009); very rare; SOLD



  






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Rosenberger, M. The Rosenberger Israel Collection Volume IV: The Coinage of Eastern Palestine, and legionary countermarks, Bar-Kochba overstruck. (Jerusalem, 1978).
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Stannard, C. "Overstrikes and imitative coinages in central Italy in the late Republic," in Essays Hirsch. (1998)

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