265, Lot: 219. Estimate $300. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305-282 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 14.31 g, 12h). Obverse die signed by the artist Δ. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 305 BC. Diademed head of Alexander right, wearing elephant's skin headdress; [small Δ] to right of elephant's ear / Athena Alkidemos advancing right, brandishing spear and holding shield; helmet, monogram, and eagle on thunderbolt to right. Svoronos 168; Jenkins, Early, group a; SNG Copenhagen 19. VF, corroded and chipped at edge from 9 to 12 o’clock, banker’s mark on cheek.