Well Preserved Portrait for Issue

248, Lot: 189. Estimate $500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Chalkis ad Libanon. Cleopatra VII of Egypt. 51-30 BC. Æ (18mm, 5.37 g, 12h). Dated RY 21 (Egyptian) and 6 (Phoenician) of Cleopatra (32/1 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Nike advancing right, holding palm; all within wreath. RPC I 4772; Rouvier 438 (Berytos); Svoronos 1888; SNG Copenhagen -; HGC 9, 1452. VF, black patina, minor roughness.