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CNG 84, Lot: 753. Estimate $300.
Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy II Philadelphos. 285-246 BC. Æ Hemiobol (24mm, 12.24 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Struck circa 266-256 BC. Deified head of Alexander the Great right, wearing elephant skin headdress / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; E(?) between legs. Svoronos 450; Weiser 31; SNG Copenhagen -; Laffaille 619 (this coin). Good VF, dark green-brown patina.


From the Tuck Pittman Collection. Ex Hess-Divo 307 (7 June 2007), lot 328; Maurice Laffaille Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 76, 19 September 1991), lot 619.