Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1539. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Ptolemaic Kings. Ptolemy III.. 246-221 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.15 gm). Ake-Ptolemais mint. Diademed bust of Ptolemy right, wearing aegis / PTOLEMAIOU SWTHROS, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; monogram before, monogram behind. Svoronos 786; SNG Copenhagen -; Mørkholm, "A Group of Ptolemaic Coins from Phoenicia and Palestine," in INJ 1980, pg. 6, 2 (A1/P1). Attractively toned, near EF. ($500)

From the Robert Schonwalter Collection.