Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 731. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy V Epiphanes. 205-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.06 gm, 12h). Kyrene mint? Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing left on winged thunderbolt; monogram to right. Svoronos 1259 = BMC Ptolemies 55; SNG Copenhagen -. Good VF, lightly toned. Extremely rare, only one published example. ($500)

BMC attributed this coin to an uncertain Phoenician mint, but the monogram is similar to the monogram on coins from Kyrene (Cf. BMC Cyrenaica p. 50, 226).