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Auction 121  6-8 Oct 2022
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Lot 580

Estimate: 3000 USD
Price realized: 6500 USD
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PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305/4 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 17.12 g, 12h). Attic standard. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 316-312/0 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin, aegis around neck; tiny Δ to right of elephant ear / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Athena Alkidemos advancing right, brandishing spear in right hand and holding shield on extended left arm; to right, EY and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. CPE 47; Svoronos 42; Zervos Issue 18, dies 287/a; SNG Copenhagen 15. Attractive cabinet tone, a few minor marks, a touch of die wear on obverse. Good VF. High relief obverse.

Ex Jacob K. Stein Collection (Gemini V, 6 January 2009), lot 207 (displayed at Cincinnati Art Museum, 1994-2008, no. 108 of exhibition of 182 coins from his collection), purchased from Cincinnati Coin Exchange, March 1975.
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