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Handwritten: assumed the diadem in 305/4
[handwritten: a] satrap since 212. Ptolemy now dated his reign from Alexander's death in 323.
[handwritten: L]The growing power and ambition of Antigonas invited the coalition against him. At the great battle of Ipsus in 301, Seleukos and Lysimachos defeated him. Seleukos, Lysimachos and Ptolemy divided up Antigonas' kingdom between them.
Antigonas' son Demetrios succeeded for a while in making himself master of Macedonia and Greece, and it was [handwritten: as] one of the Macedonian mints that he struck coins in 292 [handwritten: leaving his coinage] [handwritten: placed a portrait of himself on the obverse of the coins] [handwritten: the first] own portrait. He was the first king in Europe among [handwritten: the first to strike] the successors to do so. [handwritten: however, if the war] It was [handwritten: it] Ptolemy in Egypt is thought to have struck the first coins bearing his own portrait, somewhat earlier, [handwritten: Be] probably not long after he assumed the diadem in 305/4.
He first placed his portrait only on his gold staters (Fig. 2). In 301 we find a splendid and well executed realistic portrait of him on the obverse of all gold and silver pieces. It is a wonderful portrait and one receives the impression that the die-cutter faithfully reproduced the outstanding features of this great Macedonian. [handwritten: Details, however, has been subordinated to the] significance. This portrait is, indeed, a fine example of the new realism which is now in vogue, a realism of which
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain