CNG 96, Lot: 590. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305-282 BC. AV Third Chryson – ‘Hemidrachm’ (12mm, 1.76 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 294-285 BC. Diademed head right, wearing aegis around neck / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; XA monogram to left. Svoronos 232; SNG Copenhagen 46; Noeske 13 var. (control mark); Boston MFA 2261. Good VF, a couple light marks on obverse, slight die shift and faint deposits on reverse.

Ex Bowers & Ruddy FPL (Fall 1980), no. 60.