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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 25686511, member: 128351&quot;]Alexander the Great wearing Herakles&#039; lion skin is a familiar monetary type, approved by Alexander himself. I like his elephant skin too. I don&#039;t know if there were any portraits with the elephant skin during Alexander&#039;s lifetime, or if the oldest ones are on tetradrachms minted by Ptolemy I Soter, as satrap or king, after 323 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1642478[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="4">AE 24 mm, 10.18 g, 12 h</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Ptolemy II Philadelphos</b> (285-246 BC), Æ Obol, Alexandria mint. Series 3, circa mid/late 260s-246 BC. </font></p><p><font size="4">Obv.: diademed head of Alexander the Great right, wearing elephant skin (same die as Gorny &amp; Mosch Online Auction 301.106)</font></p><p><font size="4">Rev.: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟY ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle with spread wings, standing left on thunderbolt, E between legs.</font></p><p><font size="4">Svoronos 450</font></p><p><font size="4">Acq. in Damascus, Syria.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>The elephant-skin headgear, initially an attribute of the deified Alexander the Great, was later given to other kings and deities : Demetrios I Aniketos and Lysias Aniketos, both kings of Bactria; personifications of the city of Alexandria and the province of Africa.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please feel free to share your coins with elephant skin headgears...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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