374, Lot: 304. Estimate $750. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.50 g, 12h). 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 headdress / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; to inner left, monogram; to right, aphlaston and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 154; Zervos Series D, Issue 17; SNG Copenhagen –; Noeske –. Good VF, toned, faint porosity, light cleaning scratches. Rare variety with the aphlaston.