From the Collection of Orme Lewis, Sr.
Ex Phoenix Art Museum

271, Lot: 23. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.50 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Arados mint. Struck circa 320/19-315 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; AP monogram in left field. Price 3426; SNG München 745; SNG Alpha Bank –; SNG Saroglos 592 (all attributed to Byblos mint). Choice EF, lightly toned. Fine style.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Phoenix Art Museum Collection (Triton II, 1 December 1998), lot 327; Orme Lewis Sr. Collection.