384, Lot: 378. Estimate $300. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. First sole reign, 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 14.31 g, 12h). Uncertain mint in Cyprus(?). Dated year 87 (176/5 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; ΠZ (date, in monogram form) in left field. Svoronos 1109; Carlen 28 var. (O8/R– [unlisted rev. die]); Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 131–5 var. (unlisted obv. die [Arados]); SNG Copenhagen –; DCA 73. VF, lightly toned, slight roughness.