Sole Reign of Cleopatra Thea

CNG 109, Lot: 328. Estimate $15000. Sold for $17000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Kleopatra Thea. Sole Reign, 125 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 15.75 g, 12h). Ptolemaïs (Ake) mint. Dated SE 187 (125 BC). Diademed and veiled bust right, wearing stephanos, within fillet border / BAΣIΛIΣΣHΣ KΛEOPATPAΣ ΘEAΣ EYEPTHPIAΣ, filleted double cornucopia; monogram to inner right, ZΠP (date) and aphlaston below. SC 2258.1b; LSM 7 var. (monogram); HGC 9, 1180; CSE 803; DCA 251. VF, toned, surfaces smoothed, a few marks. Extremely rare.