Unrecorded Die For Date

384, Lot: 377. Estimate $200. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. First sole reign, 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 14.19 g, 1h). Uncertain mint in Cyprus(?). Dated year 85 (178/7 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; ΠЄ (date) in left field. Svoronos 1107; Carlen 1–8 var. (unlisted dies); Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 127 (obv. die A23 – unlisted for date [Arados]); SNG Copenhagen –; DCA 73. VF, struck from worn obverse die. Very rare date, only 8 examples noted by Carlen, this coin struck from a die used in the previous year, unrecorded as such.