Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 440. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AV Stater (8.50 g, 1h). Memphis mint. Struck under Ptolemy I Soter, circa 321 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right / Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis; in left field, ram’s head right, wearing headdress of Isis. Price 3963 var. (monogram below wing); Zervos issue III. VF, light scuff marks. Very rare issue, unpublished without associate monogram.

For a re-analysis of the dating of the early coinage of Ptolemy I, see C. Lorber, “A Revised Chronology for the Coinage of Ptolemy I,” NC 2005.