CNG 90, Lot: 774. Estimate $10000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KYRENAICA, Kyrene. Circa 480-435 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.35 g, 3h). Silphion plant / Head of Zeus-Ammon right; KVPA to right; all in pelleted circle within incuse circle. Müller, Afrique 119; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC pl. V, 15 = Boston MFA 1309 (same dies). Good VF, attractively toned, a few minor marks. Fine style.

Ex Nomos FPL (Winter-Spring 2011), no. 85; Kovacs XIII (3 June 1998), lot 130; Sotheby’s (6 November 1997), lot 158.