322, Lot: 404. Estimate $150. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. First sole reign, 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.19 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. VF, hairline flan crack, horn silver, scratches on reverse.