CNG 93, Lot: 602. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 15.59 g, 12h). Ptolemaic standard. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 311/0-305 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin headdress / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; to right, helmet, monogram, and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 162; Zervos Issue 28 (dies 503/b); SNG Copenhagen 29; Noeske 6–7; Pozzi 3194 (same dies). Good VF, toned, small cut on chin, overstruck on earlier issue of similar type.

From the Kelly J. Krizan, M.D. Collection. Ex Berk BBS 105 (17 November 1998), lot 293.