Sale: Triton X, Lot: 414. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305-282 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.64 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 305-298/7 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, helmet, HP monogram, and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 170; Jenkins, Early, group d; SNG Copenhagen 27. Choice EF, attractive gray tone with a hint of iridescence, overstruck on an uncertain tetradrachm. Well struck on a broad flan.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 43 (24 September 1997), lot 883.