Watch List notes:

Ionia, Lebedos (as Ptolemais). 3rd century B.C. Æ (13 mm, 1.98 g, 1 h). Laureate head of Apollo right / ΠTO-ΛΕ, amphora; double cornucopiae to left. KM 5; Dieudonné Ptolemais, 1c var (rev. legend). Very rare - none on ACsearch, CoinArchives, or Asia Minor Coins. Dark green patina, light encrustations in the recesses. Fine.

BMC notes:

"The attribution to Ptolemais in Pamphylia (Strabo, xiv. 667) of certain coins with the head of Apollo on the obverse, and an amphora with a raven on the reverse, is very unsatisfactory (Friendlander in Num. Zeit., ii. p. 346, Zeit. für Num., vi. p. 239). Nor is von Sallet’s attribution to Ceramus (Zeit. für Num., vi. p. 55) borne out by any resemblance in style and fabric to the coins certainly belonging to that city. H. P. Borell, (MS. Catalogue in the British Museum, Dept. of Coins) speaking of a coin in the British Museum rightly says: “The fabrick . . . will not suit any town of the same name as this which according to Strabo was in Pamphylia. . . This coin resembles much in type and fabrick to the coins of Æolia ; it came to me from the island of Calymna, near Rhodes.” The Ptolemies, however, had little if anything to do with Aeolis; and the city must be sought in the central or southern part of the west coast. This position would also suit the series of coins with magistrate’s name attributed by Imhoof-Blumer (Gr. Münzen, nos. 468 ff.) to the Pamphylian Ptolemais. Waddington was of the opinion that these coins might perhaps belong to Lebedos. The types are similar to bronzes of Abydos in Troas, (L. Robert, Monnaies antiques en Troade [Paris, 1966], p. 56 suggests Larissa-Ptolemais in Troas). but SNG von Aulock 2026 attributes them to Lebedos under the name Ptolemais.