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Auction #40
 Lot Number: 64578
Estimate: $300.00
Final Sale Price: $446.60
 Denomination: Attic Tetradrachm
Grade: VF
Reference: Cf. Svoronos 146; Zervos -

  Egypt, Ptolemaic Kings. Ptolemy I, as Satrap. 323-305 BC. AR Attic Tetradrachm (15.07
  gm). Struck circa 310 BC. Head of Alexander right, wearing elephant's skin headdress;
  small D before elephant's ear / Athena Alkidemos walking right, with spear and
  shield; GH and eagle on thunderbolt in right field. Cf. Svoronos 146; Zervos, "The
  Early Tetradrachms of Ptolemy I," in ANSMN 13 (1967), -; SNG Copenhagen 18. VF, areas
  of corrosion on obverse. Estimate $300.
Online auction number 40 closed October 22, 2001.

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