Watch List notes:

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305/4 BC, or king, 305/4-282 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 15.63 g, 12h). Ptolemaic standard. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Uncertain Mint 3, probably Memphis. Struck circa 306-303 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin, aegis around neck / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟY, Athena Alkidemos advancing right; monogram to inner left; to right, monogram and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. CPE 89; Svoronos 139; Zervos Issue 67, dies 630/a (this coin referenced); SNG Copenhagen 23; Boston MFA 2256; Gulbenkian 1073; Morgan 189 (this coin); Noeske 2–3. Beautiful old collection tone, light graffito under tone in field on reverse. EF.


From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Ex Leu 83 (6 May 2002), lot 456; Kirk Davis 41 (March 2003), no. 62; Michael F. Price Collection (Stack's, 3 December 1996), lot 82; J. Pierpont Morgan Collection (Stack's, 14 September 1983), lot 31, purchased by Morgan between 1907 and 1913.