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Phoenicia, Tyre, Ptolemy I Soter, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.86g) Die break.
$ 190.08
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Phoenicia, Tyre, Ptolemy I Soter, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm.Obverse: Internal die break, Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin.
Reverse: Zeus seated left, footstool beneath feet, lower limbs wrapped in himation, eagle in right hand, sceptre in left hand, regnal date and Phoenician letters in left field.
AΛEΞANΔΡOΥ in right field, Letter aleph below throne.
This was the Eastern-most mint of his empire, and one of only two Biblical mints (the other being Sidon). Detail is pretty much as struck: the reverse is fully centered, the obverse nearly so. Dated Regnal Year 29, which equals
321-0 B.C
. Weight: 16.86 grams. Dark glossy gunmetal patina!