Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 337. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305-282 BC. AV Pentadrachm (17.85 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 294-285 BC. Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck, small D behind ear / BASILEWS PTOLEMAIOU, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; monogram to left. Svoronos 210; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Boston MFA 2263; Dewing 2740 (same obv. die); A. Davesne & V. Yenisoganci, “Les Ptolemées en séleucide: le trésor d’Hüseyinli,” RN 1992, 50-53. Near EF, graffito (retrograde Z) on reverse. Very rare.

From a North American Collection. Ex Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 528; George & Robert Stevenson Collection (Classical Numismatic Group XXVI, 11 June 1993), lot 141 (both described as Ptolemy II).