First Issue of Ptolemy as King
CNG 85, Lot: 533. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305-282 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 15.69 g, 1h). Ptolemaic standard. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 305 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin headdress; small Δ on aegis / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; to right, helmet, monogram, and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 168; Zervos,
Early, Issue XVII; Jenkins,
Early Group a; SNG Copenhagen 19. Near EF, toned. The first issue of Ptolemy as king.
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 46 (2 April 2008), lot 304.