Watch List notes:

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.02 g, 12h). Attic standard. Alexandreia mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III of Macedon, circa 316-312/0 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant's skin headdress / Athena Alkidemos advancing right; monogram to inner left; to right, EY and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 44; Zervos Issue 20A, dies 296/b; SNG Copenhagen –; Boston MFA 2253. Good VF, lightly toned, light scratches in fields, light graffiti in fields on reverse.


Ex Classical Numismatic Group 73 (13 September 2006), lot 482.