440, Lot: 238. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. Second sole reign, 163-145 BC. AR Didrachm (21.5mm, 6.33 g, 2h). Uncertain mint in Cyprus. Dated year 106 of an uncertain era (157/6 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; Pς (date) on thunderbolt. Svoronos 1213; Olivier 3079–85 (obv. die D18); Mørkholm,
Ptolemaic 217–20 (obv. die a13; Arados); SNG Copenhagen 552; DCA 76. VF, minor marks, slightly off center on reverse.