Artistic Ptolemy Gold Pentadrachm

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 415. Estimate $6000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter. 305-282 BC. AV Pentadrachm (17.83 g, 1h). Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 298/7-294 BC. Diademed head right, wearing aegis around neck, small D behind ear / BASILEWS PTOLEMAIOU, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; monogram to left. Svoronos 208; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -. EF, minor edge bump on obverse, tiny die break behind eagle’s head. Very rare with this monogram.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 18 (29 March 2000), lot 264; Leu 22 (8 May 1979), lot 173; Hess-Leu (4 April 1963), lot 100.