La monnaie des Ptolémées – Les séries de Ptolémée I

Abstract

In Ptolemaic Egypt, the coinage of Ptolemy, the Ptolemaic dynasty’s founder, is an example of a personal political project. He was the creator of a new, original and permanent coinage system and also the responsible for the change of the types of coinage to celebrate the qualities of the new dynasty. The gradual process of rupture with the past shown through his coinage is absolutely peculiar.