CNG 100, Lot: 1603. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 17.08 g, 1h). In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Memphis or Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 321-317 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; vertical thunderbolt in left field, PY below throne. Svoronos 20; Zervos Issue 14, dies 260/f; SNG Copenhagen 11 var. (control below throne); Boston MFA 2249 = Warren 1314 (same obv. die); Jameson 998 (same obv. die); Pozzi 3179 (same dies). VF, toned, minor die shift, graffito and light cut on reverse. High relief.