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Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying Ptolemy I Soter

305-284 BCE and later
Silver

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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

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