Ex Weber Collection – Referenced in Svoronos and Naville

Triton XIX, Lot: 2079. Estimate $15000. Sold for $40000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305-282 BC. AV Stater (17.5mm, 7.15 g, 12h). Kyrene mint or Alexandreia mint for use in Kyrenaika. Struck circa 305/4-300 BC. Diademed head right, wearing aegis around neck / ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, male figure (Zeus?), holding thunderbolt in right hand, standing left in chariot drawn by four elephants left; I and monogram in exergue. Svoronos 102ς = Naville 242e = Weber 8232 (this coin); Zervos Type VI, Issue 119; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 2 (same dies); Dewing 2735 (same obv. die); Nanteuil 446 (same dies). Good VF. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Leu 48 (10 May 1989), lot 266; Hess-Leu 28 (5 May 1965), lot 319; Sir Hermann Weber Collection, 8232, purchased from L. & L. Hamburger, 1898, “ex Fountaine Cabinet”.