Ex Sir Arthur Evans Collection

Triton XVIII, Lot: 796. Estimate $1500. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KYRENAICA, Kyrene. temp. Magas. As Ptolemaic governor, first reign, circa 300-282/75 BC. AR Didrachm (21mm, 6.74 g, 12h). Head of Apollo right, wearing myrtle wreath / Silphion plant; KY-PA across upper field, monogram to lower left, crab to lower right. SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 265 (same obv. die); Hunterian 573 (same dies); Rhousopoulos 4606. Good VF, attractively toned, overstruck on similar type (on opposing sides). Rare.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Leu 74 (19 October 1998), lot 300; Schweizerischer Bankverein 21 (24 January 1989), lot 77; John Ward Collection – Metropolitan Museum of Art (Sotheby's Zurich, 4 April 1973), lot 759; Sir Arthur Evans Collection [“The Collection of an Archaeologist and Traveller”] (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 20 January 1898), lot 144.