341, Lot: 250. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305-282 BC. AV Third Chryson – ‘Hemidrachm’ (11mm, 1.75 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 300-285 BC. Diademed head right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; ΠΥ monogram to left. Svoronos 223; SNG Copenhagen 44-6 var. (monogram); BMC 68-69. VF, with an uncertain countermark on the obverse, graffiti on both sides, rim bumps.

From the J. Herbert Collection.