417, Lot: 301. Estimate $300. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.56 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Kyrene mint. Struck under Ophellas or Magas, circa 310-305 BC. Head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; no control marks. Svoronos –; Price 3985; S. P. Noe, “The Corinth Hoard of 1938,” ANSMN 10, p. 14, 161 (same dies). Fine, lighty toned, some minor deposits. Extremely rare, only two examples on CoinArchives.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s, 1993.