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Exceptional Attic Weight Ptolemy Tetradrachm

Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 984. Estimate $5000. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008. 
Sold For $4200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.06 g, 12h). Attic standard. Alexandreia mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, 309 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; monogram to inner left; to right, EY and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 44; Zervos series D, issue XV; SNG Copenhagen -. EF, fine gray cabinet toning with delicate hints of blue, green, and orange.