Ex Naville Collection – His Plate Coin

Triton XIX, Lot: 2080. Estimate $20000. Sold for $62500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305-282 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 7.09 g, 12h). Euhesperides 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; laurel branch in exergue. Svoronos 101; Zervos Type VI, Issue 122; Naville 239e (this coin, illustrated) = W. Giesecke, Das Ptolemäergeld (Leipzig, 1930), pl. I, 13 (2nd coin); SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 1 = Bement 1822 (same dies); Consul Weber 4463 (same dies); Dewing 2734 (same dies). Superb EF, some die wear on obverse. Well centered on a broad flan.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex LHS 95 (25 October 2005), lot 743; Lucien Naville Collection; A. Hess Luzern (24 November 1937), lot 58.