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376, Lot: 276. Estimate $100.
Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Kleopatra III & Ptolemy IX Soter II (Lathyros). 116-107 BC. Æ (21mm, 8.51 g, 12h). Alexandreia(?) mint. Series 8. Dated RY 3 (115/4 BC). Bearded head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress; [K behind] / Eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt; Ω over Σ to left, L Γ (date) to right. Svoronos 1191 (Ptolemy IV–Uncertain mint in Cyprus); Weiser 114 (Ptolemy V–Tyre mint); SNG Copenhagen 534-5 (Ptolemy V–Uncertain mint in Phoenicia); Noeske 187 (Ptolemy V–Uncertain mint in Phoenicia); DCA 35 (Ptolemy V). VF, brown patina with patches of red and green encrustation, some roughness. Rare.


Hoard evidence has reassigned Svoronos 1190-5 to the joint reign of Kleopatra III and Ptolemy IX Soter II.