CNG 87, Lot: 686. Estimate $1000. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.12 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Memphis or Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 323/2-317/1 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; rose in left field, ΔI below throne, [O to right of staff]. Svoronos -; Zervos Issue 2D, obv. die 209; Price 3971 var. (O to left of staff); SNG Copenhagen 7 var. (same). Good VF.