Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 391. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. Second reign, 163-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.33 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Dated RY 31 (151/0 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY, Eagle standing right on thunderbolt; LΛA (date) to left, ΠA to right. Svoronos 1445; SNG Copenhagen 297-8; BMC 41; Noske 230. EF, attractively toned.