314, Lot: 185. Estimate $300. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305-282 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.14 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck; small Δ behind ear / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; to left, P above monogram. Svoronos 259; SNG Copenhagen 72; Noeske 20. Good VF, toned, banker’s mark on obverse, graffiti in fields on both sides.

From a collection formed in the late 1930s.