Triton XVIII, Lot: 773. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AV Stater (16mm, 8.59 g, 11h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Memphis or Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 323/2-317/1 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with coiled serpent / AΛEΞAN[ΔPOY], Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; rose in left field, ΔI below left wing. Svoronos –; Zervos Issue 76, dies 736/a; Price 3969; SNG Copenhagen –; Kress 147, lot 118 (same dies). EF. Very rare.
From the Patrick H. James Collection. Ex Triton III (30 November 1999), lot 383.