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                  ORC0816 Ptolemy I, tetr., signed D VF/F

   Ptolemaic Egypt, Ptolemy I, 323-283 BC, AR tetradrachm, (13.36g)
   signed by the artist D, Paphos Mint, Cyprus, Diademed head of Ptolemy
   I right, with aegis at neck, small D behind ear. / PTOLEMAIOY
   BASILEWS Eagle standing left, on thunderbolt, P and PAP monograms
   before. S7761. VF / F, banker's marks and graffiti.

   Ex-Shipwreck c. 240 BC, found on the coast of Lebanon. From a group
   of tetradrachms of Ptolemy I, II and III, mostly from Sidon and Tyre
[ ]mints. The latest dated issue in the group is from Year 1 of Ptolemy [ ]
   III, which was 246/5 BC. Full weight of a tetradrachm of this time
   should be 14.2g.

   Hazard writes, "No subsequent craftsman at the Alexandrine mint ever
   showed the same mastery of design and detail as Delta, and, in the
   opinion of this writer, he was the greatest engraver of the
   Hellenistic Age. So proud was he of his productions that he signed
   his initial D . . . in the small space behind King Ptolemy's ear.
   Pyrrhus of Epirus and Seleucus of Syria, both residents of Ptolemy's
   court, later used Delta's designs for their own coinages; other Greek
   craftsmen also admired Delta and copied his designs at Ecbatana,
   Syracuse, Antioch, and other mints over the next five hundred years."
   Hazard, Ptolemaic Coins, p. 26-27.

   References assign this type to Alexandria despite the lack of
   charcoal for fuel and the obvious PA monogram mintmark.

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