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<p>[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 6439598, member: 87809"]My guess is that this wonderful coin belongs to [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER]; the style and font of the description is the one that he usually uses, as well as the black background<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ptolemaic Kingdom. Ptolemy I Soter, as satrap struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon. </p><p><br /></p><p>Alexandria, ca. 310-305 BC</p><p>Svoronos no. 146, pl. 5a, 7; SNG Copenhagen 18;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Head of the deified Alexander to right, wearing diadem and elephant skin headdress, scaly aegis around neck, and horn of Ammon on his forehead; tiny ∆ before elephant's ear. Dotted border</p><p>Rev.: AΛΕΞΑΝΔΡ[ΟΥ] Athena Alkidemos advancing r., hurling spear with her r. hand and with shield over her extended l. arm; to right, monogram ΑI and monogram ΔΟΦ above eagle with closed wings standing on thunderbolt. ΠA monogram in left field. Dotted border</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1255064[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1255065[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 6439598, member: 87809"]My guess is that this wonderful coin belongs to [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER]; the style and font of the description is the one that he usually uses, as well as the black background:D Ptolemaic Kingdom. Ptolemy I Soter, as satrap struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Alexandria, ca. 310-305 BC Svoronos no. 146, pl. 5a, 7; SNG Copenhagen 18; Ob.: Head of the deified Alexander to right, wearing diadem and elephant skin headdress, scaly aegis around neck, and horn of Ammon on his forehead; tiny ∆ before elephant's ear. Dotted border Rev.: AΛΕΞΑΝΔΡ[ΟΥ] Athena Alkidemos advancing r., hurling spear with her r. hand and with shield over her extended l. arm; to right, monogram ΑI and monogram ΔΟΦ above eagle with closed wings standing on thunderbolt. ΠA monogram in left field. Dotted border [CENTER][ATTACH=full]1255064[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1255065[/ATTACH][/CENTER][/QUOTE]
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