435, Lot: 180. Estimate $150. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. Second sole reign, 163-145 BC. AR Didrachm (19.5mm, 6.50 g, 1h). Uncertain mint in Cyprus. Dated year 114 of an uncertain era (149/8 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; P-IΔ (date) across field. Svoronos 1223; Olivier 3230–1 (obv. die D34); Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 308–9 (obv. die a28); SNG Copenhagen 559 var. (arrangement of date; same obv. die); DCA 76. VF, minor roughness.