394, Lot: 317. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. 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, 14.34 g, 1h). Uncertain mint in Cyprus(?). Dated year 87 (176/5 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; monogram of ZΠ (date) in left field. Svoronos 1109; Carlen 28 var. (O8/R– [unlisted rev. die]); Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 131–5 var. (obv. die unlisted [Arados]); SNG Copenhagen –; DCA 73. Good VF, minor roughness.