424, Lot: 257. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 14.56 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 right, helmet, monogram, and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 162; Zervos Issue 28; SNG Copenhagen 29. VF, toned, spots of minor roughness, a few light marks under tone.

From the WRG Collection, purchased from William Porter, June 1992.