Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 848. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $1650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.60 g, 12h). Ptolemaic standard. Alexandreia mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, 307 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin headdress / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; monogram to inner left; to right, aphlaston and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 154; Zervos series D, issue XVII; Jenkins, Early group a; SNG Copenhagen -. Good VF, toned, some pitting and crystallization, small lamination on reverse. Rare with aphlaston.