383, Lot: 242. Estimate $1000. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 15.56 g, 12h). Ptolemaic standard. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 305-304/3 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin and aegis / Athena Alkidemos advancing right, brandishing spear and wearing shield on arm; monogram to inner left; to right, ΔΙ and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 142; Zervos Issue 58; SNG Copenhagen 21-2. VF, toned, graffiti in reverse fields.