Triton XIX, Lot: 2077. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. As satrap, 323-305 BC. AV Hemistater (14mm, 4.28 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Kyrene mint. Struck under Ophellas or Magas, circa 310-305 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing single-pendant earring, necklace, and crested Corinthian helmet decorated with serpent / [AΛ]EΞANΔPOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extending right hand, cradling stylis in left arm. Price 3983; Naville 238 (same dies); SNG Berry 190 (same dies); Consul Weber 1214 (same dies). EF, light marks, some die wear. Extremely rare, only the two listed by Naville and the SNG Berry pieces published, all from the same die pair.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Triton IV (5 December 2000), lot 171; George & Robert Stevenson Collection (Classical Numismatic Group XXVI, 11 June 1993), lot 68; Spink 71 (11 October 1989) lot 41.