Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 500. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy V Epiphanes. 205-180 BC. Æ Hemidrachm (24mm, 12.01 g, 11h). Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 200-197 BC. Bearded head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt. Svoronos 1494 (Ptolemy VIII); Weiser 126; SNG Copenhagen 339-343 (Ptolemy VIII). Good VF, brown patina, minor roughness.

From the Chris Blom Collection.