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Auction 15  22 Oct 2017
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Lot 196

Estimate: 1000 CHF
Price realized: 1300 CHF
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Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt. Ptolemy I Soter, as satrap, 323-305 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 29 mm, 15.45 g, 11 h), struck in the name of Alexander III "the Great", Alexandria, 305-304/3. Diademed head of the deified Alexander III, with horn of Zeus Ammon around his ear, wearing an elephant skin headdress and an aegis around his neck. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ Athena Alkidemos advancing to right, brandishing spear with her right hand and with a shield on her left arm; in the field to left, monogram of ΗΑ within a circle; in the field to right, ΔΙ above eagle standing right on thunderbolt. SNG Copenhagen 21-2. Svoronos 142. Zervos Issue 58. Struck on a broad flan with all of the obverse fully visible. Various minor marks and with a graffito on the reverse, otherwise, good very fine.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 207, 15 October 2012, 462 and Künker 193, 26 September 2011, 309.

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