Tetrobol - Ptolemy III Euergetes

Ptolemy III inherited a kingdom already dominant in the eastern Mediterranean and promptly made it larger, launching the Third Syrian War within months of his accession and pushing Seleucid forces back to Mesopotamia — the furthest west Egyptian arms had reached since the pharaohs. The bronze coinage struck under his reign was produced in volume to support these campaigns and the administration of a vastly extended territory, including briefly held portions of Syria and parts of the Aegean coast.

The Lorber 1.2 classification places this piece within a tightly sequenced die study that has substantially revised older Svoronos attributions for the period.