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Triton XVIII, Lot: 774. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 17.08 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Memphis or Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 323/2-317/1 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Nikephoros seated left; rose in left field, ΔI-O below throne. Svoronos –; Zervos Issue 2B, obv. die 207; Price 3971; SNG Ashmolean (Macedonia) 3127 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 7 (same obv. die); Dewing 1180 (same obv. die); Kampmann 7 = DDTP p. 18 (this coin). Near EF, dark iridescent tone, double struck on reverse.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 45 (18 March 1998), lot 215.