Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 869. Estimate $200. Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007. Sold For $305. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy II Philadelphos. 285-246 BC. Æ Tetrobol or Hemiobol (42mm, 71.71 g, 12h). Ake-Ptolemais mint. Struck 261-256 BC. Head of Zeus-Ammon right, wearing tainia / Pair of eagles standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopia over shoulder of right; to left, monogram. Svoronos 788; Weiser 40 corr. (Sidon); SNG Copenhagen -. Near VF, black-green patina.
From the Gregory Conlin Collection. Ex John Bergman Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 57, 4 April 2001), lot 611; Kovacs XIII (3 June 1998), lot 124.