CNG 108, Lot: 387. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.18 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Memphis or Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 323/2-317/1 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; rose in left field, ΔI-O below throne. Svoronos –; Zervos Issue 2C, dies 206/f; Price 3971 var. (position of letters on rev.). EF, underlying luster, a hint of porosity.