CNG 97, Lot: 415. Estimate $300. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305-282 BC. AR Quarter Ma’ah – Tetartemorion (6mm, 0.18 g). Jerusalem mint. Struck circa 295/4-282 BC. Blank / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; Aramaic YHD to left. Unpublished with blank obverse; for issues with this reverse type, cf. Gitler & Lorber II 7–9; cf. Meshorer 29–32; cf. Hendin 1077–8 and 1087. VF, find patina, light porosity, cleaning marks on obverse. Very rare.

From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection.

There are examples known with this reverse type that have obverses that were struck with very worn dies. The surface of the obverse on this coin, however, is completely flat with no indications of a type. Hendin maintains that these so-called “uniface” pieces were actually coins struk with oversized dies for such small flans, so that often the obvesre type would not be present (cf. Hendin p. 123).