181, Lot: 8. Estimate $200. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Cleopatra VII Thea Neotera. 51-30 BC. Æ 23mm (8.81 g, 10h). Berytos (Phoenicia) mint. Dated year 6 of Cleopatra’s rule in Berytos (32/1 BC). Diademed and draped bust right; I(or L)N before / Baal of Berytus in quadriga of hippocamps left; LS (date) and monogram behind. Svoronos 1887; Weiser -; SNG Copenhagen -; Rouvier 437; RPC I 4530. Near VF, olive-green patina.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection.