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Tetradrachm of Kingdom of Egypt with head of deified Alexander the Great, struck under Ptolemy I
Greek
Early Hellenistic Period
about 316–315 B.C.
Mint: Egypt (Kingdom), Memphis
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 27 mm. Weight: 17.04 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1181
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 2248.
DescriptionObverse: Head of deified Alexander the Great to right with Ammon's horns, elephant skin, and aegis tied at neck. Broad fillet in hair.
Reverse: Zeus seated to left on throne without back, right foot drawn back on footstool, left hand raised on beaded sceptre, right hand holding eagle to right with closed wings; over his knees is a mantle.
At left in field a thunderbolt.
Inscriptions in Greek at right and below throne.
Beaded border.
Reverse: Zeus seated to left on throne without back, right foot drawn back on footstool, left hand raised on beaded sceptre, right hand holding eagle to right with closed wings; over his knees is a mantle.
At left in field a thunderbolt.
Inscriptions in Greek at right and below throne.
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.