Triton XVII, Lot: 428. Estimate $500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. Second sole reign, 163-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.93 g, 11h). Paphos mint. Dated RY 23 (159/8 BC). Diademed bust of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; LKΓ (date) to left, ΠA to right. Svoronos 1435; Paphos Hoard 4; SNG Copenhagen 619; Noeske –; BMC 37; DCA 46. EF, a little die rust.