373, Lot: 192. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy IX to Ptolemy XII. 116-51 BC. Æ (20.5mm, 8.00 g, 12h). Alexandreia(?) mint. Series 9. Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon right / Two eagles with their wings closed standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopia to left. Svoronos 1426 (Joint reign of Ptolemy VI and VIII); SNG Copenhagen 311–4 (same); cf. Lorber & Faucher Series 6E. VF, brown surfaces.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.