CNG 103, Lot: 410. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. First sole reign, 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 13.95 g, 1h). Uncertain mint in Cyprus(?). Dated year 92 (171/0 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck / ΠTOΛEMAIOY ΣΩTHPOΣ, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; (retrograde P)B monogram (date) to left. Svoronos 1208; Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 171–3 var. (unlisted obv. die [Arados]); cf. SNG Copenhagen 549 (didrachm); DCA 73; Nomos 9, lot 189 (same obv. die). Superb EF, lightly toned, trace deposits. Very rare date, five in CoinArchives.