126, Lot: 98. Estimate $300. Sold for $495. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As Satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.54 g). Alexandria mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 320 BC. Head of Alexander right, wearing elephant's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and lotus-tipped sceptre; thunderbolt left, PY below. Svoronos 20; Zervos Issue B-VII; SNG Copenhagen 11 var. (monogram). VF, toned, porous. Rare.