415, Lot: 253. Estimate $100. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COELE-SYRIA, Chalkis ad Libanon. Ptolemaios. Tetrarch, circa 85-40 BC. Æ (19mm, 6.28 g, 12h). Dated year 2 of the Pompeian Era (63/2 BC). Laureate head of Zeus right / The Dioskouroi, each holding spear, standing facing and looking at each other; [L B] (date) to outer right; all within laurel wreath. Herman 4g; HGC 9, 1440; DCA 473; Sofaer 17. VF, dark green to black patina with reddish earthen highlights/deposits.