CNG 99, Lot: 387. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.32 g, 11h). In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Memphis or Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 321-317 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; thunderbolt in left field, monogram below throne. Svoronos 22; Zervos Issue 13, dies 256/a; SNG Copenhagen 11; Noeske –. VF, toned, some porosity and roughness, light cleaning marks, area of weak strike on reverse. High relief obverse. Well centered.

Ex Gemini III (9 January 2007), lot 263; LHS 95 (25 October 2005), lot 741.