Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 576. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $460. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305-285 BC. AR Tetradrachm (13.89 gm, 12h). Obverse die signed by the artist D. Alexandria mint. Diademed bust right, wearing aegis; small D behind ear / BASILEWS [PTOLE]MAIOU, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; P above monogram to right. Svoronos 255; BMC Ptolemies pg. 20, 59; SNG Copenhagen 70. Good VF, toned, minor porosity. ($500)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection. Ex Superior Galleries (11-12 December 1992), lot 2222.