Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 590. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $460. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. 180-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (13.43 gm, 12h). Arados mint. Dated CY 90 (170/169 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / PTOLEMAIOU SWTHROS, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; P (date) to left. Svoronos 1112; cf. Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 158 (A37/P113); BMC Ptolemies pg. 102, 18; SNG Copenhagen 547. EF, lightly toned. ($500)

From the Ronald Cohen Collection.