Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 992. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Ptolemaic Kings. Ptolemy I, as Satrap. 323-305 BC. AR Attic Tetradrachm (16.91 gm). Struck circa 315-310 BC. Head of Alexander right, wearing elephant's skin headdress / Athena Alkidemos walking right, with spear and shield; eagle on thunderbolt and ÐI in right field. Svoronos 33; Zervos, "The Early Tetradrachms of Ptolemy I," in ANSMN 13 (1967), Issue XIII; SNG Copenhagen 14. Good VF, reverse porous. Rare. ($500)