Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 392. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $630. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. temp. Ptolemy VIII-X. Late 2nd century BC. AR Drachm (3.49 g, 12h). Uncertain mint on Cyprus. Draped bust of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath; thyrsos in background / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAI[OY], Eagle standing right on thunderbolt. Svoronos 1794; SNG Copenhagen 639 & Supp. 1321-3; BMC p. 63, 19-20; Noske 387. VF, toned, hairline flan crack. Very rare.