Triton XIX, Lot: 2081. Estimate $5000. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305-282 BC. AV Tetrobol (12mm, 2.83 g, 12h). Kyrene mint. Struck circa 305/4-300 BC. Diademed head right, wearing aegis around neck / [BAΣIΛEΩΣ] ΠTOΛEMAIOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in right hand, scepter in left; to left, crab left; Z below right wing. Svoronos 304; Naville 258e = Hermitage Sale II 1569 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen –; BMC (Ptolemies) 92 = BMC (Cyrenaica) 3. Near EF, some die wear. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Leu 50 (25 April 1990), lot 254; Robert Jameson Collection (Hess-Leu, 14 April 1954), lot 198; Hermitage Collection (Schlessinger 13, 4 February 1935), lot 1569.