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Auction 123  23-24 May 2023
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Lot 251

Estimate: 2000 USD
Price realized: 4250 USD
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PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305/4 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.21 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Memphis or Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 323-317 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; rose in left field, ΔI-O below throne. CPE 19; Svoronos –; Zervos Issue 2C, dies 202/i (this coin referenced); Price 3971 var. (position of letters on rev.). Lovely old collection tone, area of soft strike and a few old scratches in field on reverse. Good VF. Well centered.

From the Collection of a London Novelist, purchased from Sovereign Rarities Ltd. Ex Dr. Walter Stoecklin (†1975) Collection (Nomos 14, 17 May 2017), lot 176 (his ticket included), purchased from Bank Leu, Zurich; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 105 (August 1951), no. 6.
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