307, Lot: 112. Estimate $200. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.71 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Memphis or Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 323/2-317/1 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; thunderbolt in left field, ΔI below throne. Zervos Issue 4, dies 229/– (unlisted rev. die); Price 3976; SNG Ashmolean 3139 (same obv. die); SNG Fitzwilliam 2179 (same obv. die). VF, toned, minor porosity, triple strike on reverse.