433, Lot: 138. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy V or Ptolemy VI. 204-180 BC or 180-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.29 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck / Eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt; no control marks. Svoronos 1231 and 1489; SNG Copenhagen 244–5 and 262–8; Noeske 176–7 and 192–3. VF, toned, some porosity.

From the Collection of a Novelist. Ex estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 383, 28 September 2016), lot 247; Cederlind BBS 173 (18 March 2014), lot 109.