Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1068. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As Satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.11 g, 11h). Alexandria mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, 318 BC. Diademed head of Alexander right, wearing elephant's skin headdress / ALEXANDROU, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; thunderbolt in left field, monogram below throne. Zervos Series B, Issue IX (same obv. die as plate coin); Svoronos 22; SNG Copenhagen 11; BMC 2. VF, toned, typical light field marks. Rare. ($4000)

From the Robert Weimer Collection. Ex Superior (30 May 1990), lot 7026; Numismatic Fine Arts XX (10 March 1988), lot 815.