239, Lot: 240. Estimate $200. Sold for $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 3.64 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 311 BC. Diademed head of Alexander right, wearing elephant skin headdress / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; to right, eagle standing right on thunderbolt above ΔI. Svoronos 34; Zervos Issue XIII; cf. SNG Copenhagen 14 (tetradrachm). Near VF, porosity and scuffs.