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281, Lot: 145. Estimate $500.
Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 15.61 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 311/0-305 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin headdress; small Δ in aegis / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; to right, helmet, monogram, and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 162; Jenkins, Early, Group e; SNG Copenhagen 29. VF, lightly toned, graffiti on Alexander’s forehead and to inner left of reverse, occasional faint scratch.