406, Lot: 520. Estimate $200. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.90 g, 12h). In the name of Philip III of Macedon. Sidon mint. Dated RY 16 of Abdalonymos (318/7 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; Π (date) in left field, ΣI below throne. Price P177 (same dies as illustration); Newell, Dated 47 (dies XXIV/β); HGC 10, 270; DCA 878. VF, toned.

From the George Bernert Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 37 (20 March 1996), lot 231.