Ex Lockett and Cartwright

Triton XIX, Lot: 325. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.74 g, 1h). Ptolemaic standard. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 311/0-305 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Athena Alkidemos advancing right; monogram to left; to right, Corinthian helmet right, ΔI, and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 177; Zervos Issue 33, dies 534/d (this coin referenced); SNG Copenhagen –; Noeske –; Boston MFA 2258 (same obv. die); SNG Lockett 3394 (this coin). Superb EF, lightly toned, minor die break on obverse, slightly soft on reverse.

Ex Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Glendining, 21 February 1961), lot 2781; Richard Cartwright Collection (Münzhandlung Basel 4, 1 October 1935), lot 950.