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397, Lot: 227. Estimate $750.
Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 15.74 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 headdress / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; to right, helmet, monogram, and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 165; Zervos Issue 27, obv. die 449; SNG Copenhagen –. Good VF, toned, graffiti and scrape on reverse, test cuts on obverse.


Ex CNG Inventory 994128 (January 2015); Elwood Rafn Collection.