Triton XX, Lot: 396. Estimate $7500. Sold for $5250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KYRENAICA, Kyrene. temp. Ophellas. Ptolemaic governor, first reign, circa 322-313 BC. AV Stater (19.5mm, 8.60 g, 12h). Polianthes, magistrate. Nike, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both, driving slow quadriga half-right; KYPANAION above / Zeus Ammon standing half-left, holding phiale in extended right hand, lotus-tipped scepter in left; thymiaterion to left, ΠOΛIANΘEYΣ to right. Naville 98–101 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 1210; BMC 121a (same obv. die); Boston MFA 1325 = Warren 1346; Jameson 1353; de Luynes 3660 (same obv. die). Good VF, minor double strike on reverse.

From the Collection of a Northern California Gentleman. Ex Patrick A. Doheny Collection (Sotheby’s, 20 June 1979), lot 24.