Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 442. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.98 g, 11h). Memphis mint. Struck under Ptolemy I Soter, circa 322 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; rose in left field, DI-O below throne. Price 3971; Zervos issue II. VF, lightly toned.

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.