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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 632

Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy I Soter (305/4-283 BC), AV Stater, struck c. 300-298 BC, Kyrene, under Magas, diademed bust of Ptolemy right, wearing Aegis, rev. PTOLEMAIOY BASILEIOS deified Alexander driving quadriga of elephants left, holding thunderbolt and sceptre, O X in exergue, 7.08g, 12h (C C Lorber, "A Revised Chronology of the Coins of Ptolemy I," NC (2005), pp. 45-64; Svoronos 102; SNG Copenhagen 426 var. {exergual monograms}), a hint of die wear to high points, otherwise attractively centred and residually lustrous, a pleasingly good very fine, a celebrated rarity seldom offered at public auction, especially with these exergual marks

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