CNG 97, Lot: 412. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.48 g, 12h). Attic standard. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 316-312/0 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin and aegis with tiny ΔO to right of elephant ear / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Athena Alkidemos advancing right, brandishing spear in right hand and wearing shield on extended left arm; monogram to inner left; to right, EY and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 44, pl. II, 23 (same dies); Zervos Issue 20A (dies 300/b); SNG Copenhagen –; Noeske –; CNG 94, lot 775 (same dies). Near EF, even gray tone, some light scratches and cleaning marks under tone. Well centered. Very rare issue with ΔO on obverse, struck from the same obverse die as the AΛEΞANΔPEION issue (see previous lot, and cf. Svoronos pl. 4, 23 and Kraay & Hirmer 798).