421, Lot: 399. Estimate $200. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.97 g, 6h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Byblos mint. Struck circa 320/19-315 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, legs crossed; in left field, O above [retrograde B]; IA below throne. Price 3416 (Berytos). VF, toned, some roughness. Very rare, two in Pella, one in CoinArchives, none in ANS Photofile.

From the collection of José Miguel Márquez del Prado.