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312, Lot: 137. Estimate $500.
Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.44 g, 12h). Attic standard. Alexandreia mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 319-315 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin and aegis; small [Δ] in lower corner of elephant skin / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; to right, EY and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 42; Zervos issue XIV; SNG Copenhagen 15. VF, lightly toned, minor porosity, scratches (graffiti?) on reverse.