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A Couple Of Large Ancient Silver Coins?

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One possible Greek, one Ptolemaic? Not my area at all but very interested to see what they are exactly.

From left to right, 13.53 grams and 15.32 grams

Any help much appreciated!
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Left is Ptolemaic Egypt, one of the earlier Ptolemies.

Right is Seleucus I in the type of Alexander III.

Left one is a bit lightweight, but looks genuine to my eye. I have my doubts about the second (mainly because it's a desired type) but the weight is better--the Attic standard tetradrachm should weigh 17 grams, but standards were sometimes lax, although 15.2g is still on the lower side of tolerable for the early 3rd century BC.
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