Watch List notes:

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 15.46 g, 1h). 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 / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; monogram to inner left; to right, monogram and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 161; Zervos Issue 67, dies 252/– (unlisted rev. die); SNG Copenhagen 23; Noeske –. EF, attractively toned, a couple tiny die breaks on obverse. Well struck.


From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Jean Vinchon, 1980s.