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440, Lot: 239. Estimate $100.
Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. Second sole reign, 163-145 BC. AR Didrachm (21mm, 6.53 g, 1h). Uncertain mint in Cyprus. Dated year 108 of an uncertain era (155/4 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; E between legs, PH (date) on thunderbolt. Svoronos –; Olivier 3126 var. (D24/R– [unlisted rev. die]) = Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 244 var. (a18/r– [unlisted rev. die]); SNG Copenhagen –; DCA 76. VF, some porosity, minor marks. Very rare date, only three examples recorded by Olivier.