456, Lot: 213. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. 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 (28mm, 15.61 g, 1h). 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 headdress / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; to right, monogram and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Zervos Issue 35, dies 539/b; CPE 108; Svoronos 108; SNG Copenhagen –. Toned, some die wear on obverse, overstruck on another issue of this type. EF.

From the Jack A. Frazer Collection. Ex J. Schulman 231 (6 March 1958), lot 3700a.