Bold Portrait

307, Lot: 128. Estimate $500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. First sole reign, 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.00 g, 12h). Uncertain Cypriot or Phoenician mint. Dated year 88 (175/4 BC?). Diademed bust of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; ΠH (date) to left. Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 136–147; Svoronos 1110; SNG Copenhagen 546; DCA 73. EF, reverse slightly off center.