CNG 96, Lot: 587. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.02 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Memphis or Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 323/2-317/1 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; rose in left field, monogram below throne. W.A. Hansen, “An Unpublished Early Alexander Tetradrachm from the Memphis Mint” in NumCirc CXVIII/5 (December 2010), figs. 1 and 9; otherwise unpublished. Good VF, lightly toned, slight die shift, small mark on cheek, thin die break on reverse. Fine style. Extremely rare, one of three known.

Ex CNG Inventory 727162 (August 2001).