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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2486480, member: 56859&quot;]Congrats!</p><p><br /></p><p>I love these satrapal tets of Ptolemy I Soter and picked up an earlier version at CICF this year.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]525509[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>EGYPT.&nbsp; Ptolemy I Soter</b></p><p>AR tetradrachm, 27 mm, 17.0 gm (Attic standard)</p><p>Alexandreia mint, struck 313/12 BCE</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; Head of the deified Alexander III to right, wearing mitra (headband) of Dionysos and elephant skin headdress, with aegis around his neck, and with horn of Ammon on his forehead</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ; Athena Alkidemos advancing right, hurling spear with her right hand and with shield over her extended left arm; to right, eagle with closed wings standing on thunderbolt to right with ΔΙ below</p><p>Ref: Svoronos 33; Zervos series D, issue XIII; SNG Copenhagen 14; BMC 7</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=138690" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=138690" rel="nofollow">From a similar coin in CNG&#039;s archives</a>:</p><p>&quot;The coinage of Ptolemy I developed in a fairly complex way. He first issued normal issues in the name of Alexander, then changed them by inaugurating a new obverse type showing Alexander wearing an elephant’s skin headdress in circa 321. In 314 this was changed by replacing the seated Zeus on the reverse by an archaizing fighting Athena - Athena Alkidemos. These coins were of Attic weight.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Around 310 BCE, Ptolemy reduced the weight of tetradrachms to ~15 gm and the style of these elephant headdress/Athena coins changed somewhat.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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