406, Lot: 517. Estimate $500. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 15.06 g, 11h). 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; small ∆ on aegis / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; start to inner left; to right, monogram, Corinthan helmet right, and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 174; Zervos Issue 26; SNG Copenhagen 28. VF, toned, hairline flan crack, areas of roughness, flan flaw on obverse, light Aramaic graffito and a couple light scratches on reverse.

From the George Bernert Collection.