Exceptional High Relief

CNG 97, Lot: 409. Estimate $10000. Sold for $27500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.58 g, 12h). In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Memphis or Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 321-317 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; vertical thunderbolt in left field, PY below throne. Svoronos 20; Zervos Issue 14, dies 260/h; SNG Copenhagen 11 var. (control under throne); Boston MFA 2249 = Warren 1314 (same dies); Jameson 998 (same obv. die); Pozzi 3179 (same obv. die). EF, lightly toned. Extraordinarily high relief obverse.

From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 72 (14 June 2006), lot 989.