Unique Ptolemy I Imitation

CNG 96, Lot: 589. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.38 g, 1h). In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Contemporary imitation. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin and aegis / Athena Alkidemos advancing right, brandishing spear and wearing shield; illegible “monogram” to inner left; to right, YE and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Unpublished. VF, lightly toned, granular surface, scratch on obverse, graffito in field on reverse. Unique imitation based on the satrapal coins of Ptolemy.