Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 735. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Cleopatra VII Philopator. 51-30 BC. Æ Diobol ­ 80 Drachmae (18.73 gm, 12h). Alexandria mint. Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopiae to left, P to right. Svoronos 1871; Weiser 183; SNG Copenhagen 419. VF, dark green and red-brown patina, slight smoothing. Choice portrait of the last and most famous Ptolemaic queen. ($1500)