Ex Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 475. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KYRENAICA, Kyrene. Ophellas. Ptolemaic Governor, first reign, circa 322-313 BC. AV Stater (8.62 g, 12h). Polianthes, magistrate. Nike driving quadriga right / Zeus-Ammon standing left, holding patera and scepter; thymiaterion to left, [ΠOΛI]ANΘEYΣ to right. Naville 133 (same dies); Müller, Afrique 192; SNG Copenhagen 1210; Boston MFA 2336 (this coin). VF, a couple light marks. Very rare.

Ex George and Robert Stevenson Collection (Classical Numismatic Group XXVI, 11 June 1993), lot 160; Numismatic Fine Arts VIII (6 June 1980), lot 389; Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection (donated in 1946, in memory of Zoe Wilbour).