386, Lot: 367. Estimate $200. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. First sole reign, 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.32 g, 12h). 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 3 (O2/R3); Mørkholm,
Ptolemaic 127 (obv. die A24 [Arados]); SNG Copenhagen Supp. 1311 (same dies); DCA 73. VF, a little off center, some roughness. Very rare date, only 8 examples noted by Carlen.