A guide to the Department of coins and medals in the British museum (1922)
British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals, Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London : The Trustees · leaf 28
e realistichead of Ptolemy Soter (IV. A. No. 22, Fig. 16), though even hecannot dispense with the aegis of Zeus, looks forward to thefrankly human portraits of such later Hellenistic rulers as Greek Coins 33 Philetaerus of Pergamiim (V. A. No. 9) or Antiochus I of Syria(V. A. No. 13). A frequent… … Fig. 16. Ptolemy I of Egypt. 305-284 b. c. CASE 5. PERIOD V. DECLINE OF ART 280-190 E. c. During the third century, the age of the Epigoni, the coinagethroughout Asia is almost exclusively regal, either in reality orin appearance, for many even of those cities which preserved theirautonomy issued…
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