Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XVIII 29 Sep 2019
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Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy I, as satrap, AR Tetradrachm. Alexandria, circa 311/10 BC. Attic standard. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin headdress; small Δ on aegis / Athena Alkidemos advancing right, brandishing spear and holding shield; to left; AΛEΞANΔPOY, to right; EY and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. CPE 47; Svoronos 42, pl. II, 20; SNG Copenhagen 15. 17.01g, 27mm, 12h.
Good Extremely Fine; beautiful old cabinet tone. Very Rare.
From a private North American collection;
Ex Stack's, Auction 415, 8 April 1989, lot 250.
The small Δ concealed amongst the scales of the aegis on this obverse die has been considered by some numismatists to be the signature of an Alexandrian master die engraver (see Svoronos, The Coins of the Ptolemaic State, Vol. 1, 1904, col. pξή), although it might equally be the mark of a die engraving workshop or something else entirely (see Lorber, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire, Vol. 1, 2018, p. 257).
Good Extremely Fine; beautiful old cabinet tone. Very Rare.
From a private North American collection;
Ex Stack's, Auction 415, 8 April 1989, lot 250.
The small Δ concealed amongst the scales of the aegis on this obverse die has been considered by some numismatists to be the signature of an Alexandrian master die engraver (see Svoronos, The Coins of the Ptolemaic State, Vol. 1, 1904, col. pξή), although it might equally be the mark of a die engraving workshop or something else entirely (see Lorber, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire, Vol. 1, 2018, p. 257).