Ex Slocum Collection

456, Lot: 212. Estimate $750. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305/4 BC. AR Drachm (15mm, 3.56 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 312-311 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin headdress / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; to right, eagle standing right on thunderbolt above ΔI. CPE 42; Svoronos 34; Zervos Issue 68, dies 698/a (this coin referenced); SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Lockett 3382 = Pozzi 3184; BMC 15. Attractively toned, a couple edge marks. Good VF. Rare.

From the BRN Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts [XXIII] (14 December 1989), lot 808; Journal of Numismatic Fine Arts 3.2–4 (Autumn 1974), no. P5; J. J. Slocum Collection.