Ex Naville and Ponton d’Amécourt Collections

Triton XIX, Lot: 2111. Estimate $10000. Sold for $40000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KYRENAICA, Kyrene. Circa 331-322 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.68 g, 7h). Aristagoras, magistrate. Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both, driving slow quadriga half-left; APIΣTAΓOPAΣ in exergue / Zeus-Ammon standing half-right, holding scepter in right hand, left hand on hip; in background below, ram standing right; KYPANAIΩN to left. Naville 73e (this coin); SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 106; Boston MFA 1319 = Warren 1351 (all from the same dies). VF, a few minor marks. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Sotheby’s (5 July 1985), lot 88; Lucien Naville Collection; Naville V (18 June 1923), lot 2945; Rollin & Feuardent (9 May 1910), lot 690; Vicount Gustave Ponton d’Amécourt Collection (Hoffman, 28 April 1886), lot 151.