456, Lot: 248. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. Second sole reign, 163-145 BC. AR Didrachm (20.5mm, 6.64 g, 1h). Uncertain mint in Cyprus. Dated year 117 of an uncertain era (146/5 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; P-IZ (date; Z retrograde) across field, Є between legs. Svoronos 1228; Olivier 3293–304 (obv. die D46); Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 357–63 (obv. die a38); SNG Copenhagen 562 var. (Z not retrograde; same obv. die); DCA 76. Toned, some porosity, edge split. Near VF. Rare with retrograde Z.

Ex Pegasi BBS 143 (26 August 2014), lot 196.