Triton XVI, Lot: 588. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 15.51 g, 1h). Ptolemaic standard. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 311/0-305 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin; small Δ on aegis / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Athena Alkidemos advancing right; to right, ’, Corinthan helmet right, and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 164; Zervos Issue 29, dies 521/c (this coin referenced); SNG Copenhagen –; Noeske –; SNG Lockett 3393; Weber 8226. VF, toned, light surface marks under tone, area of slight roughness on reverse.

Ex G. Hirsch 275 (22 September 2011), lot 4123; Lanz 40 (25 May 1987), lot 443; Naville XVI (3 July 1933), lot 1463.