Quality Portraits

225, Lot: 289. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Chalcis ad Libanum. Mark Antony, with Cleopatra VII. 36-31 BC. Æ 22mm (5.68 g, 12h). Dated RY 21 (Egyptian) and 6 (Phoenician) of Cleopatra (32/1 BC). Draped bust of Cleopatra right, wearing stephane / Bare head of Mark Antony right; dates in legend. RPC I 4771; Rouvier 440 (Berytus); SNG München 1006; SNG Copenhagen 383 (Phoenicia). VF, dark green patina, light roughness. Good portraits.

From the Guy Weill Goudchaux Collection.