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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 3576924, member: 72790&quot;]In addition to the Ptolemies above that I offered, there is a Ptolemy I, the cousin of Alexander the Great, who acquired Egypt in the shakeup of the Successor States. His first coinage was a continuation of that of Alexander so that at first Ptolemy issued coins resembling those of Alexander and on the&nbsp; Attic scale of ca. 17 grams. Later he started issuing coins of his own design[ATTACH=full]953827[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]953828[/ATTACH] on a reduced Phoenician scale of ca. 14 grams. As you can see on the above tetradrachma of Ptolemy II in the previous post there is a banker&#039;s mark as these coins were sometimes plated fourres of somebody. The one pictured here is obviously a fourre with little silver plating remaining. On the reverse, showing Athena Promachos , there is a bit more silver plate remaining.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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