307, Lot: 126. Estimate $300. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. First sole reign, 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.13 g, 12h). Uncertain Cypriot or Phoenician mint. Dated year 85 (178/7 BC?). Diademed bust of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; ΠЄ (date) in left field. Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 127; Svoronos 1107; SNG Copenhagen –; DCA 73. VF, light obverse scratches. Rare year.