425, Lot: 241. Estimate $300. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22.5mm, 17.08 g, 6h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Tyre mint. Struck under Menes. Dated RY 31 of ‘Ozmilk (319/8 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Phoenician ‘K (for ‘Ozmilk) and | –= (Phoenician date). Price 3281 (Ake); Newell, Dated 34, obv. die XXIX; DCA 737. Good VF, a little off center on obverse. Clear date.

See A. DeShazo, “The Satrapal and Alexander Coinage of Tyre” in JONS 233 (forthcoming), for an analysis down-dating the series by two years. The present issue would be 317/6 BC, but still an issue under Ptolemy I. The article is currently available at https://www.academia.edu/36979096/The_Satrapal_and_Alexander_Coinage_of_Tyre