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Pedigree to 1889
From the Lockett and Pozzi Collections

CNG 99, Lot: 386. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 16.01 g, 9h). In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Memphis or Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 321-317 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant's skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; thunderbolt in left field, monogram below throne. Svoronos 22; Zervos Issue 13, dies 255/c (this coin referenced); SNG Copenhagen 11; Noeske –; SNG Lockett 3378 = Pozzi 3180 (this coin). Good VF, toned, some porosity, scratches. High relief obverse.


Ex Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Glendining, 21 February 1961), lot 2765; Prof. Samuel-Jean Pozzi Collection (Naville I, 14 March 1921), lot 3180; Sambon (26 March 1889), lot 1840.