395, Lot: 219. Estimate $200. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. Second sole reign, 163-145 BC. AR Didrachm (20mm, 6.80 g, 1h). Uncertain mint in Cyprus(?). Dated year 105 of an uncertain era (158/7 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; PE (date) on thunderbolt. Svoronos 1212; Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 197–210 (obv. die A10 [Arados]); SNG Copenhagen 552; DCA 76. VF, lightly toned, some roughness, slightly off center.

From the W. H. Guertin Collection.