Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 421. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As Satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.61 g, 12h). Alexandria mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 310-305 BC. Diademed head of Alexander right, wearing elephant's skin / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; DI, helmet and eagle to right. Svoronos 169; Jenkins, Early, Group f; SNG Copenhagen 30. VF, dark iridescent toning, some flatness on reverse. ($750)

From the John F. Sullivan Collection.