Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1069. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $6250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As Satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Attic Tetradrachm (17.08 g, 11h). Alexandria mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, 314 BC. Diademed head of Alexander right, wearing elephant's skin headdress / ALEXANDROU, Athena Alkidemos advancing right, brandishing spear in right hand, holding shield on left arm; to right, eagle standing right on thunderbolt above DI. Zervos Series D, Issue XIII; Svoronos 33; SNG Copenhagen 14; BMC 7. EF, lightly toned. ($2000)

From the Robert Weimer Collection. Ex Phoenix Art Museum Collection (Triton II, 1 December 1998), lot 518; Orme Lewis Sr. Collection.