303, Lot: 86. Estimate $300. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy V Epiphanes. 204-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.01 g, 12h). Uncertain Cypriot or Phoenician mint. Dated year 79 (184/3 BC?). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck / Eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt; OΘ (date) in exergue. Cf. Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 69 and 71 (A17/R?); Svoronos 1099; SNG Copenhagen 543 (same obv. die); DCA 73. Good VF, scattered marks.