270, Lot: 140. Estimate $100. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KYRENAICA, Kyrene. Ophellas. Ptolemaic governor, first reign, circa 322-313 BC. Æ 1/2 Unit (20mm, 7.89 g, 7h). Youth on horseback right; AM below raised foreleg / Four-spoked wheel with hub seen in perspective; silphium between spokes at left. Buttrey, Coins -; cf. SNG Copenhagen 1221 (letters indistinct, but possibly from the same obv. die); BMC 197 var. (rev. to opposite direction and with two spokes omitted). Fine, brown patina. Rare.