Discovery Coin

CNG 103, Lot: 411. Estimate $1500. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. Second sole reign, 163-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.81 g, 12h). Uncertain mint in Cyprus(?). Dated year 99 (163/2 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; (koppa)Θ (date) on thunderbolt (between the eagle’s claws). Unpublished, but see Triton XII, lot 389 for a similar tetradrachm dated to year 97. EF, attractive find patina, a few light scratches and marks, some minor porosity. Unique, the first tetradrachm of this series with the date on the thunderbolt.