379, Lot: 178. Estimate $300. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 15.04 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 / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; monogram to inner left, monogram and eagle standing right on thunderbolt to right. Svoronos 139; Zervos Issue 67; SNG Copenhagen 23. VF, toned, areas of roughness, scratches.

Ex Berk BBS 61 (20 March 1990), lot 175.