View source for 3866 - Alexandria (Ptolemy I) (tetradrachm Alexander/Athena CPE 69) over Alexander the Great (Heracles/Zeus) (New York, ANS, 1944.100.75586)

{{Overstrike
|Museum collection=New York, American Numismatic Society, 1944.100.75586
|Private collection=E. T. Newell collection
|Obverse description=Head of the deified Alexander III to right, wearing a diadem with the horn of Zeus Ammon, an elephant skin headdress and aegis around his neck. Before elephant's ear, Δ. Border of dots.
|Reverse legend=ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
|Reverse description=Athena Alkidemos advancing to right, brandishing spear with her right hand and with a shield on her left arm. In the right field, Corinthian helmet, below monogram (AX) and eagle on thunderbolt. Border of dots.
|Mint=Alexandria
|Ancient region=Egypt
|Authority=Ptolemy I Soter (satrap and Ptolemaic king of Egypt, 323-305 BC) ; Alexander III the Great (Argead king, 336-323 BC) - pretended authority (name and portrait)
|Date from=306
|Date to=305
|Weight=15.31
|Diameter=28
|Axis=12 h
|Denomination=Tetradrachm
|Coin reference=B. E. Levy, "The overstruck coinage of Ptolemy I", American Numismatic Society Museum notes 6 (1954), pl. XII, no. 2.
|Coin series reference=SNG Copenhagen/Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Royal Collection of coins and medals, Danish National Museum (43 vols), 1942-1979, no. 29;J. N. Svoronos, Τα νομίσματα του κράτους των Πτολεμαίων, Athens, 1904–1908, no. 162.;C. C. Lorber, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire: Ptolemy I through Ptolemy IV, New York, 2018, no. 69.
|Overstruck obverse description=(visible: profile of Heracles, behind it petal-like effect formed by flattening of lion's mane when overstruck).
|Overstruck reverse description=(visible: above horn of Ammon of new type, leg of Zeus' throne from earlier reverse type, with traces of monogram below: ..Y).
|Overstruck authority=Alexander III the Great (Argead king, 336-323 BC) - type
|Overstruck denomination=tetradrachm
}}