Sale: Triton V, Lot: 574. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Ptolemaic Kings. Cleopatra VII . 51-30 BC. Æ 80 Drachmae (22.29 gm). Diademed bust of Cleopatra right / KLEOPATRAS BASILISSHS, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopiae left, P right. Svoronos 1871; SNG Copenhagen 419; Weiser 183; Laffaille -. Good VF, dark brown patina, some minor roughness and scratches, unusually well preserved with a bold portrait. One of the finest known! ($3000)