Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 553. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305-282 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.66 g, 12h). Ptolemaic standard. Alexandreia mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 304 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin headdress; small D in aegis / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; to right, helmet, monogram, and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 170; Jenkins, Early group d; SNG Copenhagen 27. Good VF, toned.

Ex Peus 384 (2 November 2005), lot 478.