391, Lot: 322. 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 (26mm, 14.33 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 var. (O1/R– [unlisted rev. die]); Mørkholm,
Ptolemaic 127 var. (obv. die unlisted [Arados]); SNG Copenhagen Supp. 1310 (same obv. die); DCA 73. Good VF, horn silver on obverse, slightly off center on reverse.