PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305/4 BC, or king, 305/4-282 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 15.67 g, 12h). First reduced Ptolemaic standard. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 306-300 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, wearing elephant skin, aegis around neck with tiny Δ in scales / Athena Alkidemos advancing right, brandishing spear in right hand and wearing shield on extended left arm; monogram to inner left; to right, two monograms and eagle standing right on thunderbolt. CPE 59; Svoronos 146; Zervos Issue 22, dies 333/b; SNG Copenhagen 18. Iridescent tone, countermark on obverse, off center on reverse. VF.
Ex Kirk Davis FPL 74 (Fall 2019), no. 50; WCM Collection of Ptolemaic Coins; Classical Numismatic Group 43 (24 September 1997), lot 878.