Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying Ptolemy I Soter

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Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying Ptolemy I Soter

Greek, PtolemaicLinkedCulture matchlcp-beb199ff7fc6

Date
305-284 BCE and later
Medium
Silver
Culture
Egypt
Department
Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
95975

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Obverse: Head of Ptolemy I to right, diademed and wearing aegis; partial border of dots Reverse: Eagle standing on thunderbolt to left, at left the letter P and a monogram, countermark at right

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Credit line
Gift of William F. Dunham
Provenance
William F. Dunham (1857-1936), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

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AAT300037334

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