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420, Lot: 272. Estimate $200.
Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 17.01 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Byblos mint. Struck circa 320/19-315 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, O above B; ΛI below throne. Price 3413 (Berytos). VF, lightly toned. Extremely rare, three in Pella (including the sole piece in the ANS Photofile), none in CoinArchives.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 17 January 2004.