Ex Niggeler Collection

Triton XIX, Lot: 2114. Estimate $5000. Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KYRENAICA, Kyrene. temp. Ophellas. Ptolemaic governor, first reign, circa 322-313 BC. AV Drachm (14.5mm, 4.31 g, 5h). Polianthes, magistrate. Rider on horse prancing right; ΠOΛI to upper left / Silphon plant; K-Y/P-A in two lines across field; to right of base, small jerboa right. Naville 109l (this coin); SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Lockett 3471; BMC 132; Boston MFA 1329 = Warren 1353; Weber 8437 (all from the same dies). VF, a few marks. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex UBS 56 (28 January 2003), lot 176; Walter Niggeler Collection (Part I, Leu/Münzen und Medaillen AG, 3 December 1965), lot 533; Ars Classica XVII (30 October 1934), lot 654.