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Tetradrachm of Kingdom of Egypt with head of deified Alexander the Great, struck under Ptolemy I
Greek
Early Hellenistic Period
306 B.C.
Mint: Egypt (Kingdom), Alexandria
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 28 mm. Weight: 15.64 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1185
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 2257.
DescriptionObverse: Head of deified Alexander the Great to right with Ammon's horns, broad band in hair, hair covered by elephant skin with beaded edge below, and aegis tied at throat.
Beaded border.
Reverse: Athena Alkidemos advancing to right, spear in raised right hand, shield on left arm; she wears crested Athenian helmet, chiton girded over overfold, and a scarf with "swallow tail" ends which passes forward from the back, is drawn up and thrown back again over both shoulders.
Corinthian helmet over small eagle with closed wings to right on thunderbolt.
Inscription in Greek at left and monogram at right.
Beaded border.
Beaded border.
Reverse: Athena Alkidemos advancing to right, spear in raised right hand, shield on left arm; she wears crested Athenian helmet, chiton girded over overfold, and a scarf with "swallow tail" ends which passes forward from the back, is drawn up and thrown back again over both shoulders.
Corinthian helmet over small eagle with closed wings to right on thunderbolt.
Inscription in Greek at left and monogram at right.
Beaded border.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren; purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, September, 1904
Not listed as Greenwell by Regling.
Not listed as Greenwell by Regling.