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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3577267, member: 87809&quot;]I am just reading a free Ebook </p><p><font size="4"><b><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=QatEAQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA169&amp;lpg=PA169&amp;dq=monograms+on+Alexandria+tetradrachm+Ptolemy+I&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=ovEdTnabOH&amp;sig=ACfU3U0vnyXNLsYhMxcM_vAw0ohM1IMNaw&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjO6ZSUsvviAhVEb60KHVOQAos4ChDoATAHegQICRAB" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=QatEAQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA169&amp;lpg=PA169&amp;dq=monograms+on+Alexandria+tetradrachm+Ptolemy+I&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=ovEdTnabOH&amp;sig=ACfU3U0vnyXNLsYhMxcM_vAw0ohM1IMNaw&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjO6ZSUsvviAhVEb60KHVOQAos4ChDoATAHegQICRAB" rel="nofollow">The Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Numismatic Society</a></b></font></p><p>at <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=QatEAQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA169&amp;lpg=PA169&amp;dq=monograms+on+Alexandria+tetradrachm+Ptolemy+I&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=ovEdTnabOH&amp;sig=ACfU3U0vnyXNLsYhMxcM_vAw0ohM1IMNaw&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjO6ZSUsvviAhVEb60KHVOQAos4ChDoATAHegQICRAB" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=QatEAQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA169&amp;lpg=PA169&amp;dq=monograms+on+Alexandria+tetradrachm+Ptolemy+I&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=ovEdTnabOH&amp;sig=ACfU3U0vnyXNLsYhMxcM_vAw0ohM1IMNaw&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjO6ZSUsvviAhVEb60KHVOQAos4ChDoATAHegQICRAB" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?id=QatEAQAAMAAJ</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If I understand correctly, these tetradrachms were struck by Ptolemy I (son of Lagus) in memory of Alexander the younger, first king of Egypt, when Alexander the younger died. </p><p><br /></p><p>After an interregnum of seven years from his father’s death, the young Alexander Ægus, son of Roxana (an Eastern princess) and Alexander the Great, was recognized as the first king of Egypt, but always under the tutelage of Ptolemy, who continued governing the Kingdom as before.&nbsp; The tetradrachms and drachms of this series have on the obverse the head of Alexander the Great not covered with the lion’s skin, but with that of an elephant, the symbol of Alexandria. The reverse bears the legend AΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ and Pallas, a divinity especially venerated by the family of Alexander. In the field on all these coins, may be seen an eagle standing, the symbol of the Lagid family. By placing it on the coins of Alexander the younger, Ptolemy showed the tutelage he exercised over the young king. Subsequently this type became the general type of Ptolemaic coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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