Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 641. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.20 g, 1h). Memphis mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 318 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; rose in left field, ΔI below throne. Zervos Issue IV; Price 3976. VF, toned. Obverse struck in high relief. Well centered.

Ex Lanz 120 (18 May 2004), lot 134.