Ptolemy I Soter (satrap and Ptolemaic king of Egypt, 323-305 BC)

Mints

Ptolemy I Soter I (Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, Ptolemaĩos Sōtḗr, i.e. Ptolemy (pronounced /ˈtɒləmi/) the Savior), also known as Ptolemy Lagides,[1] c. 367 BC – c. 283 BC, was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great, who became ruler of Egypt (323 BC – 283 BC) and founder of both the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Ptolemaic Dynasty. In 305/4 BC he took the title of pharaoh.

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Die Studies

Item	Image	MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.	WeightCarter 1983 * Median weight * 20000 (*10 if gold or electrum)
Alexandria (Ptolemy I), gold, trichrysa (300-285 BCE)		Gold	154,224 kg
Cyprus (uncertain mint) (Ptolemy I-II), gold, trichrysa (294-274 BCE)		Gold	72,078 kg
Alexandria (Ptolemy I), gold, 10th trichrysa (294-282 BCE)		Gold	16,513 kg
Tyre (Ptolemy II), gold, trichrysa (275-274 BCE)		Gold	74,863 kg
Sidon (Ptolemy II), gold, trichrysa (275-274 BCE)		Gold	55,264 kg
Alexandria (Ptolemy II), gold, trichrysa (274-272 BCE)		Gold	63,903 kg
Tyre (Ptolemy IV), silver, tetradrachms ΣΩ (portrait of Ptolemy IV) (217-215 BCE)		Silver	282 kg
Tyre (Ptolemy IV), silver, tetradrachms ΣΩ (portrait of Ptolemy I) (217-215 BCE)		Silver	558 kg
S 668 - Alexandria (Ptolemy V), silver, tetradrachms (205-195 BCE)		Silver	40,397 kg
S 648 - Uncertain mint, silver, tetradrachm		Silver	1,196 kg
S 650 - Uncertain mint (Ptolemy V), silver, tetradrachms (203-200 BCE)		Silver	2,129 kg
S 652 - Ptolemais-Ake? (Ptolemy V), silver, tetradrachms (201-199 BCE)		Silver	719 kg
Paphos (Ptolemy V), silver, tetradrachms (195-180 BCE)		Silver	2,569 kg
S 618 - Citium (Ptolemy V), silver, tetradrachms (191-181 BCE) Olivier		Silver	1,571 kg
S 117 - Aradus (Ptolemy VI), silver, tetradrachms (180-145 BCE) Mørkholm		Silver	16,880 kg
S 74 - Aradus (Ptolemy VI), silver, tetradrachms (180-145 BCE) Duyrat		Silver	16,644 kg
Paphos (Ptolemy VI), silver, tetradrachms (180-169 BCE)		Silver	1,802 kg
S 619 - Citium (Ptolemy VI), silver, tetradrachms (180-169 BCE)		Silver	1,765 kg
S 118 - Aradus (Ptolemy VI), silver, didrachms (180-145 BCE) Mørkholm		Silver	6,237 kg
S 75 - Aradus (Ptolemy VI), silver, didrachms (180-145 BCE) Duyrat		Silver	6,427 kg
S 620 - Citium (Ptolemy VI), silver, tetradrachms (170-163 BCE)		Silver	6,588 kg
S 627 - Paphos (Ptolemy VI-VIII), silver, tetradrachms (169-163 BCE)		Silver	4,128 kg
Paphos (Ptolemy VI), silver, tetradrachms (164-145 BCE)		Silver	4,740 kg
S 621 - Citium (Ptolemy VI), silver, tetradrachms (163-145 BCE)		Silver	8,215 kg
S 622 - Citium (Ptolemy VIII), silver, tetradrachms (145-116 BCE)		Silver	18,412 kg
Paphos (Ptolemy VIII), silver, tetradrachms (145-116 BCE) Olivier		Silver	9,943 kg
Paphos (Ptolemy IX), silver, tetradrachms (117-113 BCE) Olivier		Silver	1,402 kg
S 623 - Citium (Ptolemy IX), silver, tetradrachms (117-113 BCE)		Silver	1,396 kg
Paphos (Ptolemy X), silver, tetradrachms (114-105 BCE) Olivier		Silver	8,178 kg
S 624 - Citium (Ptolemy X), silver, tetradrachms (113-104 BCE)		Silver	3,835 kg
S 617 - Salamis (Ptolemy IX), silver, tetradrachms (100-88 BCE) Olivier		Silver	3,819 kg
S 633 - Paphos (Ptolemy IX), silver, tetradrachms (100-90 BCE) Olivier		Silver	3,931 kg

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Overstriking coins

Item	Overstriking coinImage of the overstriking coin	MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.	DateIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.	Overstruck typeImage of the overstruck variety
928 - Salamis (Alexander the Great) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus) over Alexander the Great (Leu Numismatik, EA 18, Dec. 2021, 573)		Silver	315 BC JL
3440 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 59) over uncertain type (Hess-Divo, 314, May 2009, 1253)		Silver	306 BC JL
3396 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 72) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (New York, ANS, 1944.100.75634)		Silver	306 BC JL
3680 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 72) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (Heritage, 3035, Sept. 2014, 29120)		Silver	306 BC JL
3209 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 59) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (CNG, MBS 58, Sept. 2001, 737)		Silver	306 BC JL
3661 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 65) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (New York, ANS, 1944.100.75562)		Silver	306 BC JL
2976 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 67) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (New York, ANS, 1974.26.5314)		Silver	306 BC JL
24245 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 65) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (New York, ANS, 1944.100.75559)		Silver	306 BC JL
3731 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 63) over uncertain type (Nomos, Obolos 8, Dec. 2017, 384)		Silver	306 BC JL
3684 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 70) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (New York, ANS, 1944.100.75624)		Silver	306 BC JL
24273 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 72) over uncertain type (Leu Numismatik, EA 27, Sept. 2023, 878)		Silver	306 BC JL
24158 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 70) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (Triton, VII, Jan. 2004, 372)		Silver	306 BC JL
2912 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 69) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (MacDonald coll., 143)		Silver	306 BC JL
3727 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 72) over uncertain type (Auctiones, 29, June 2003, 782)		Silver	306 BC JL
3617 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 72) over uncertain type (Pegasi Numismatics, 35, Oct. 2016, 220)		Silver	306 BC JL
24248 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 65) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (New York, ANS, 1974.26.5305)		Silver	306 BC JL
3810 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 69) over Aradus (Alexander the Great) (Heracles/Zeus) (New York, ANS, 1974.26.5315)		Silver	306 BC JL
3235 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 65) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (New York, ANS, 1944.100.75560)		Silver	306 BC JL
24280 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 73) over uncertain type (Malter, XXXII, Nov. 1985, 177)		Silver	306 BC JL
3277 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 65) over uncertain type (Triton, X, Jan. 2007, 414)		Silver	306 BC JL
3489 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 69) over uncertain type (Elsen, 86, Dec. 2005, 146)		Silver	306 BC JL
3809 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 61) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (Schulman, 231, March 1958, 3700a)		Silver	306 BC JL
3866 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 69) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (New York, ANS, 1944.100.75586)		Silver	306 BC JL
3690 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 69) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (Stack’s Bowers & Ponterio, 160, June 2011, 6046)		Silver	306 BC JL
3090 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 72) over uncertain type (Heritage, Signature Sale 3061, Jan. 2018, 29267)		Silver	306 BC JL
3507 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 69) over Babylon (Alexander the Great) (Heracles/Zeus) (New York, ANS, 1944.100.75608)		Silver	306 BC JL
3177 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 72) over uncertain type (Helios, 4, Oct. 2009, 62)		Silver	306 BC JL
24283 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 72) over uncertain type (CNG, EA 476, Sept. 2020, 171)		Silver	306 BC JL
3151 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 65) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (Dorotheum, Nov. 2013, 82)		Silver	306 BC JL
3278 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 69) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (Ebay, seller Autorarities, Aug. 2015, 2015BK13)		Silver	306 BC JL
3281 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 69) over uncertain type (Berk, BBS 105, Nov. 1998, 293)		Silver	306 BC JL
3783 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 59) over uncertain type (Auctiones, EA 13, Febr. 2013, 35)		Silver	306 BC JL
3467 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 70) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (Nomos, Obolos 8, Dec. 2017, 383)		Silver	306 BC JL
24218 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 63) over uncertain type (Gorny & Mosch, 269, March 2020, 673)		Silver	306 BC JL
3806 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 69) over uncertain type (CNG, 103, Dec. 2016, 395)		Silver	306 BC JL
24288 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 77) over uncertain type (Leu Numismatik, EA 11, Feb. 2020, 1108)		Silver	306 BC JL
2949 - Alexandria (Ptolmey I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 69) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (CNG, MBS 67, Sept. 2004, 936)		Silver	306 BC JL
2998 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 69) over uncertain type (Stack's Bowers and Ponterio, NY Auction, Jan. 2016, 30137)		Silver	306 BC JL
24270 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (AE Alexander/eagle CPE B23) over uncertain type (CNG, EA 553, Jan. 2024, 177)		Bronze	300 BC JL
3771 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (AE Alexander/eagle CPE B31) over Philip II (Apollo/rider) (CNG, EA 178, Dec. 2007, 26)		Bronze	300 BC JL
3700 - Cyrene (AE Ptolemy I/Lybia) over uncertain type (CNG, EA 281, Feb. 2008, 6)		Bronze	246 BC JL

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Overstruck coins

Item	Overstruck typeImage of the overstruck variety	MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.	DateIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.	Overstriking coinImage of the overstriking coin
2957 - Petra (AE Athena/Nike) over Ptolemaic type (Alexander/eagle) (CNG, EA 268, Nov. 2011, 147)		Bronze	280 BC JL
3442 - Petra (AE Athena/Nike) over Ptolemaic type (Alexander/eagle) (CNG, EA 183, March 2008, 79)		Bronze	280 BC JL
2605 - Cyrene (AE Zeus-Ammon/silphium) over Cyrene (Ptolemy/Lybia) (Ebay seller Mattagio, July 2017)		Bronze	250 BC JL
2930 - Cyrene (AE Zeus-Ammon/silphium) over Cyrene (PtolemyI/Lybia) (CNG, 87, May 2011, 714)		Bronze	250 BC JL
2860 - Cyrene (AE Zeus-Ammon/silphium) over Cyrene (Ptolemy I/Lybia) (MacDonald coll., 144)		Bronze	250 BC JL
24350 - Cyrene (AE Zeus-Ammon/silphium) over Cyrene (PtolemyI/Lybia) (Naville Numismatics, 52, Sept. 2019, 129)		Bronze	250 BC JL
3827 - Cyrene (AE Zeus-Ammon/silphium) over Cyrene (Ptolemy I/Lybia) (Roma Numismatics, EA 1, July 2018, 238)		Bronze	250 BC JL
24356 - Cyrene (AE Zeus-Ammon/silphium) over Cyrene (Ptolemy I/Lybia) (CNG, EA 318, Jan. 2014, 349)		Bronze	250 BC JL
2572 - Cyrene (AE Zeus-Ammon/silphium) over Cyrene (Ptolemy I/Lybia) (CNG, EA 402, July 2017, 364)		Bronze	250 BC JL

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Ptolemy I Soter

TypeType of authority. ᵖ	Person
Nomisma IDNomisma ID	ptolemy_i
Links	http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ptolemy_I_Soter http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q168261 http://viaf.org/viaf/21347488

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Literature

• CPE I (45 mentions)
• Svoronos 1904-1908 (40 mentions)
• Zervos 1967 (37 mentions)
• Levy 1954 (8 mentions)
• Roche-Lévêque 2023 (4 mentions)
• Olivier 2012 (4 mentions)
• Sear II (4 mentions)
• Price 1991 (1 mentions)
• MacDonald 2009 (1 mentions)
• [[]] (1 mentions)
• RQEMH (1 mentions)