Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 495. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $7250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Berenike, sister of Ptolemy III. AR Pentadrachm (19.42 gm). Struck circa 246-221 BC. Diademed and veiled bust right / BERENIKHS BASILISSHS, cornucopiae bound with fillet between two pilei. Svoronos 989; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC Ptolemies pg. 60, 7. Good VF, minor porosity, small obverse dig. Very rare; only six examples cited by Svoronos. ($5000)

Ex Leu 53 (21-22 October 1991), lot 168.