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182, Lot: 103. Estimate $150.
Sold for $555. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 15.49 g). Memphis or Alexandria mint. Stuck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 316 BC. Diademed head of Alexander right, wearing elephant's skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; thunderbolt in left field; OP below throne. Svoronos 24; Zervos Issue B-VIII; SNG Copenhagen 11 var. (monogram rather than OP below throne). VF, high relief obverse, rough reverse, flan broken and missing a section. Rare early issue.