296, Lot: 89. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 15.59 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 headdress / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; monogram to inner left; to right, monogram and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 161; Zervos Issue 67/II; SNG Copenhagen 24. VF, toned, old scrapes on obverse, graffiti in reverse field.