Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 378. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy III. 246-221 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.16 gm). Diademed bust right, wearing aegis / PTOLEMAIOU SWTHROS, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopiae to left. Svoronos 1001; BMC Ptolemies pg. 54, 83; SNG Copenhagen 167. Attractively toned, near EF, well centered with a stylish portrait of Ptolemy. [See color enlargement on plate 6] ($1500)