394, Lot: 315. Estimate $150. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. First sole reign, 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 13.83 g, 12h). Salamis mint. Dated RY 7 (175/4 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; piloi of the Dioskouroi across upper field; to left, LZ (date) above ΣA; petasos with diadem to right. Svoronos 1331; Mørkholm & Kromann 48–51 var. (A9/P– [unlisted rev. die]; ΣA in right field below kausia on all dies); SNG Copenhagen –. VF, slight die wear. High relief, struck on a broad flan.