303, Lot: 90. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. First sole reign, 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.99 g, 12h). Uncertain Cypriot or Phoenician mint. Dated year 89 (174/3 BC?). Diademed bust of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; ΠΘ monogram (date) to left. Cf. Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 148-53 (uncertain dies); Svoronos 1111; SNG Copenhagen –; DCA 73. Near EF.