373, Lot: 185. Estimate $200. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 15.62 g, 12h). 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 / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; monogram to inner left, monogram and eagle standing right on thunderbolt to right. Svoronos 139; Zervos Issue 67, dies 673/– (unlisted rev. die); SNG Copenhagen 23. Good VF, toned, deposits, banker’s mark and scrape on cheek, graffiti on reverse.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.