Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 570. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHARAONIC EGYPT. Nektanebo II. 361-343 BC. Æ 16mm (4.24 gm, 1h). Ram running left, head reverted / Scales. Weiser pg. 16, 1; Howgego pl. 9, 192. Good VF, greenish-brown patina. Only the third recorded example, and the finest known of the three. ($1500)

Nekht-her-hebet, or Nektanebo II as he was known to the Greeks, was the nephew of Pharaoh Tachos (Djed-her). Placed in command of the Egyptian army in Syria during the Satrapal Revolt, he turned his troops against his own king and took Egypt by force. In 351-350 BC he repelled a Persian invasion but was driven from his throne in 344-343 BC by a second assault. He fled Egypt, found refuge in Ethiopia, and retained control of Upper Egypt for another few years.