363, Lot: 201. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.72 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 Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; rose in left field, ΔI below throne, [O to right of scepter]. Svoronos –; Zervos Issue 2D; Price 3971e; SNG Copenhagen 7 var. (O to left of staff). EF, some minor porosity, hairline scratches. Struck in high relief.