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Coin

Object Number:29-70-281
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Hellenistic
Provenience: Egypt
Mit-Rahineh
Maker: Ptolemy III
Locus: Plot3
Period: Hellenistic
Ptolemy III
Section:Egyptian
Materials:Bronze
Iconography:Alexander III
Elephant
Eagle
Cornucopia
Inscription Language:Greek Language
Outside Diameter:2.55 cm
Credit Line:The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Mit-Rahineh (Memphis), Egypt, 1915-1920
Other Number:M147 - Field No SF

Description

Obverse: head of Alexander facing right, elephant skin; reverse: eagle with closed wings and head back, cornucopia over shoulder

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