Coin: billon tetradrachm
- Museum number:
- 6-22310
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21060022310
- Alternate number:
- 442 (field number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.699
- Description:
- Coin, silver base. Diameter 23 mm. Weight 15.13 grams. Condition fair. Denomination: silver base tetradrachm. Obverse description: Head of Ptolemy I, facing right, diademed, aegis around neck. Reverse description: [inscription] Eagle on thunderbolt. Mint date: Alexandria, year 20, reign of Ptolemy XI, Alexander I.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Temple enclosure, Tebtunis, Faiyum region
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Egypt
- Culture or time period:
- Ptolemaic dynasty (332–31 BC)
- Collector:
- Arthur S. Hunt and Bernard P. Grenfell
- Materials:
- Billon
- Person depicted:
- Ptolemy I Soter (King of Egypt)
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Object class:
- Coins (money) and Tetradrachms
- Function:
- 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
- Production date:
- 90 BC
- Accession date:
- 1935
- Department:
- Ancient Egypt
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