312, Lot: 141. Estimate $300. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. First sole reign, 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 14.08 g, 12h). Uncertain Cypriot or Phoenician mint. Dated year 87 (176/5 BC?). Diademed bust of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; ZΠ monogram (date) to left. Mørkholm,
Ptolemaic 131–5; Svoronos 1109; SNG Copenhagen –; DCA 73. EF, minor porosity, light cleaning marks.