Triton XXII, Lot: 399. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305/4 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.18 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Memphis mint. Struck circa 323-321/0 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Nikephoros seated left; rose in left field, ΔI-O below throne. CPE 19; Svoronos –; Zervos Issue 2C, dies 206/f; Price 3971 var. (position of letters on rev.). EF, underlying luster, a hint of porosity.