388, Lot: 198. Estimate $300. Sold for $320. 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 (25.5mm, 14.28 g, 12h). Salamis mint. Dated RY 6 (176/5 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; piloi of the Dioskouroi across upper field; Lς (date) to left; to right, petasos with diadem above ΣA. Svoronos 1329; Mørkholm & Kromann 37 (A7/P23); SNG Copenhagen 566. Good VF, struck with worn obverse die.