Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 380. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.58 g, 1h). Reduced standard. Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 305 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin; small Δ on aegis / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Athena Alkidemos advancing right; to right, Corinthian helmet above monogram and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 168; Jenkins, Early, group a; SNG Copenhagen 19; BMC 27; Noske 1. Near EF, deep toning, slight die shift on obverse. Beautifully centered.

Ex Meister & Sonntag 4 (11 October 2006), lot 28.