CNG 99, Lot: 388. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.65 g, 1h). Ptolemaic standard. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 311/0-305 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin; small Δ on aegis / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; to right, helmet, monogram, and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 168; Zervos Issue 24, dies 370/– (unlisted rev. die); SNG Copenhagen 19; Noeske 1. Near EF, toned, indications of undertype, a few light scratches under tone on obverse.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 151 (9 October 2006), lot 254.