Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying King Ptolemy I
367-284 BCE
- Medium
- Silver
- Classification
- Coin
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 2.6 cm (1 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- Ancient Mediterranean
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Gift of William F. Dunham
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The front (obverse) of this coin portrays the head of King Ptolemy I of Egypt, facing right. The back (reverse) depicts an eagle, wings folded.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
