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Triton XVII Sessions 1 & 2  7 January 2014
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Lot 410

Estimate: 3000 USD
Price realized: 11 000 USD
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PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.41 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 and aegis with tiny ΔO to right of elephant ear / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Athena Alkidemos advancing right, brandishing spear in right hand and wearing shield on extended left arm; monogram to inner left; to right, EY and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 44, pl. II, 23 (same dies); Zervos Issue 20A (dies 300/b); SNG Copenhagen –; Noeske –; CNG 94, lot 775 (same dies). EF, toned. Well centered. Very rare issue with do on obverse, struck from the same obverse die as the ŬE$Å@drE5o@ issue (see previous lot, and cf. Svoronos pl. 4, 23 and Kraay & Hirmer 798).

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