Triton XXII, Lot: 432. Estimate $15000. Sold for $18000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KYRENAICA, Kyrene. temp. Ophellas. Ptolemaic governor, first reign, circa 322-313 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.60 g, 11h). 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 91 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 1210; BMC 120 (same dies); Bement 1871 (same rev. die); Boston MFA 1325 = Warren 1346; Jameson 1353; de Luynes 3660; Nanteuil 437 = Pozzi 3271 (same rev. die); Rhousopoulos 4601 (same rev. die). VF, slight die wear on reverse. Well centered.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 228 (9 March 2015), lot 189; Lanz 102 (28 May 2001), lot 346; Lanz 80 (26 May 1997), lot 217; Classical Numismatic Group 38 (6 June 1996), lot 580; Hess-Leu [15] (7 April 1960), lot 271.