CNG 88, Lot: 563. Estimate $500. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. Second sole reign, 163-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.14 g, 12h). Salamis mint. Dated RY 23 (159-158 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; LKΓ (date) to left, ΣA to right. Svoronos 1347; Paphos Hoard 11; SNG Copenhagen -. Near EF, minor edge split, hairline flan crack, small edge flaw at 2 o’clock on obverse.