393, Lot: 197. Estimate $200. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. First sole reign, 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.28 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 2-5 (O2/R–); Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 127 (obv. die A24 [Arados]); SNG Copenhagen Supp. 1311 (same obv. die); DCA 73. VF, lightly toned, graffiti in right reverse field.