185, Lot: 140. Estimate $200. Sold for $185. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos (Auletes). 80-58 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 12.91 g, 12h). Alexandria mint. Dated RY 18 (64/3 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; L IH in left field; PA in right. Svoronos 1865; SNG Copenhagen 389. Good VF.

Ptolemy XII was the father of Cleopatra VII, and was generally a puppet of the Romans. He was deposed in 58 BC, but returned to power with the support of the Romans in 55 BC.