Referenced in Zervos

CNG 112, Lot: 369. Estimate $2500. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305/4 BC, or king, 305/4-282 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 15.62 g, 11h). Ptolemaic standard. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 306-300 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin, aegis around neck with tiny Δ in scales / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; star to inner left; to right, helmet, monogram, and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. CPE 66; Svoronos 174; Zervos Issue 26, dies 434/a (this coin referenced); SNG Copenhagen 28. Toned, edge marks from prior bezel, minor flan flaw in field on reverse. EF. Well struck.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 46 (24 June 1998), lot 538; Numismatic Fine Arts Publication No. 13 (March-April 1979), no. 24; Superior Stamp & Coin “Classical Coins of the Greeks & Romans” FPL (undated, c. 1969), no. 340.