Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 586. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Berenike II, wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes. AR Pentakaidekadrachm (51.41 gm, 12h). Alexandria mint. Struck under Ptolemy III, 246-221 BC. Diademed and veiled bust right / BERENIKHS BASILISSHS, cornucopiae bound with fillet between two pilei. Svoronos 988 and pl. XXXV, 2; BMC Ptolemies -; SNG Copenhagen -. Good VF, toned, minor surface roughness. Lacks the usual flan crack that typifies this issue. ($10,000)