215, Lot: 299. 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 (26mm, 16.59 g, 12h). Attic standard. Alexandreia mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 319-315 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin and aegis; small Δ in lower corner of elephant skin / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; to right, EY and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 42; Zervos issue XIV; SNG Copenhagen 15. Good VF, toned, minor roughness and a few deposits.