CNG 85, Lot: 480. Estimate $300. Sold for $420. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Itouraia. Ptolemaios. Tetrarch and Archiereus, 85-40 BC. Æ (19mm, 4.04 g, 12h). Chalkis ad Libanum(?) mint. Dated Year 2 of the Pompeian Era (63/2 BC). Laureate head of Zeus right / [ΠT]OΛEMA[IOY] down right field, [TE]TPAPXOY down left, APXIE in exergue, male figures, each in military outfit and holding spear, standing back-to-back with heads vis-à-vis [LB (date) above]; all within wreath. A. Kindler, “On the Coins of the Ituraeans,” in Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Numismatics (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1993), 5; SNG München (Syrien: nicht-königliche Prägungen) 1004; HGCS 9, 1440. VF, green surfaces.