Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 554. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $1050. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305-282 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.65 g, 12h). Ptolemaic standard. Alexandreia mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 302/1 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 162; Jenkins, Early group e; SNG Copenhagen 29. Good VF, toned.