Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying Ptolemy I Soter
305-284 BCE and later
- Medium
- Silver
- Classification
- Coin
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 2.7 cm (1 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- Egypt
- 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
Obverse: Head of Ptolemy I to right, diademed and wearing aegis; partial border of dots Reverse: Eagle standing on thunderbolt to left, at left the letter P and a monogram, countermark at right
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
