177, Lot: 134. Estimate $200. Sold for $410. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.01 g). Memphis mint. Struck circa 322 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; rose in left field; DI-O below throne. Price 3971; Zervos issue II. Good Fine, rough surfaces, some reverse porosity.

For a re-analysis of the dating of the early coinage of Ptolemy I, see C. Lorber, “A Revised Chronology for the Coinage of Ptolemy I,” NC 2005.