443, Lot: 185. Estimate $200. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305/4 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 17.09 g, 11h). In the name of Philip III of Macedon, types of Alexander III. 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, lightly toned, a few scattered marks.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 18 January 2002.