Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 849. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $235. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. Æ Chalkous (15mm, 2.63 g, 1h). Ptolemaic standard. Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 305 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin headdress / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; uncertain monogram to inner left; to right, EY monogram and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Cf. Svoronos 45; Zervos Issue XVII; cf. SNG Copenhagen 16 (cited examples are drachms). VF, brown patina. Unpublished denomination and monogram.

From the Gregory Conlin Collection. Ex West Coast Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 41, 25 March 1997), lot 1060 (part of); Dattari Collection.