315, Lot: 147. Estimate $200. Sold for $120. 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, 12.34 g, 12h). Uncertain Cypriot or Phoenician mint. Dated year 90 (173/2 BC?). Diademed bust of Ptolemy I right, wearing [aegis] / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; retrograde P (date) to left. Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 154-66; Svoronos 1112 and 1205; SNG Copenhagen 547; DCA 73. VF, toned, porosity, marks and scratches.

From the Dr. Robert A. Kilmarx Collection.