Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 443. 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 (17.15 g, 1h). Memphis mint. Struck under Ptolemy I Soter, circa 318 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; thunderbolt in left field, DI below throne. Price 3976; Zervos issue VI. VF.

From the Robert A. Weimer Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 54 (14 June 2000), lot 486.

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.