Silver tetradrachm ptolemy biography

Ptolemy iv coins

Ptolemy V (/ B.C.) issued the most interesting tetradrachm, above, with his own youthful portrait rather than the canonical—if perpetually evolving—portrait of the .

silver tetradrachm ptolemy biography

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Tetradrachm of Ptolemy I Classification Coins Work Type coin Date BCE Places Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Alexandria (Egypt) Period Ptolemaic period Missing: biography.

Ptolemaic dynasty timeline

Their rather monotonous coinage consisted of tetradrachms in increasingly debased silver alloy with a stylized image of Ptolemy I on the obverse and the emblematic standing eagle on the.


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A silver tetradrachm of Ptolemy XII (r.