Watch List notes:

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.69 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 / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; d to inner left; to right, circular erasure (in die), Corinthan helmet right, and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 179 (and 180 corr.); Zervos Issue 30, dies 521/b; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 25 (same dies). Good VF, toned, struck from worn dies.


From the Collection of José Miguel Márquez del Prado. Ex Áureo & Calicó 293 (24 May 2017), lot 2046.