Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 646. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $10500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Berenike II, wife of Ptolemy III. Circa 244/3-221 BC. AR Pentakaidekadrachm (52.30 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint(?). Struck under Ptolemy III, 246-221 BC. Veiled and draped bust right / Cornucopia, bound with fillet, between two laureate pilei. Svoronos 988 and pl. XXXV, 2; D. Vagi, “The Ptolemaic Pentakaidekadrachm,” SAN XX.1 (1997), pp. 5-10; H.A. Hazard, Ptolemaic Coins (Toronto, 1995), c1052 (dodecadrachm); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -. Good VF, toned, fields lightly smoothed. Very rare, especially without the usual flan crack.