Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 573. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter, as Satrap. 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.42 gm, 1h). Obverse die signed by the artist D. Alexandria mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 310-305 BC. Diademed head of Alexander right, wearing elephant's skin headdress; small D to right of elephant's ear / ALEXANDROU, Athena Alkidemos advancing right, brandishing spear in right hand, holding shield on left arm; helmet, monogram, and eagle on thunderbolt to right. Svoronos 168; Jenkins, Early, Group a; BMC Ptolemies pg. 4, 27; SNG Copenhagen 19. Good VF, toned. ($1000)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection.