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Lot 5153

Estimate: 1000 USD
Price realized: 1600 USD
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PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305/4 BC, or king, 305/4-282 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 14.71 g, 1h). 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 / 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 676/a (this coin referenced); SNG Copenhagen 23. Old cabinet tone, roughness, minor edge chip, light cleaning scratches under tone on reverse. VF.

Per the ANS photofile, this coin is ex J. S. Wilkinson Collection (not in Malter 49 sale); Herrick Collection (sold privately by Thomas Elder in the 1930s). Lot includes an old ticket and holder noting (in German) "from stock of Frank Sternberg, November 1989.".
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