CNG 93, Lot: 603. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.63 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, ΔI, and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 169; Zervos Issue 31 (dies 527/a); SNG Copenhagen 30; Noeske –; BMC 26 (same dies). Good VF, lightly toned.