319, Lot: 144. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. First sole reign, 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.55 g, 12h). Uncertain Cypriot or Phoenician mint. Dated year 89 of an uncertain era (174/3 BC?). Diademed bust of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; ΠΘ monogram (date) to left. Svoronos 1111; Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 150–2 (obv. die A34); SNG Copenhagen –; Noeske –; BMC p. 102, 17; DCA 73. Near VF, lightly toned, rough areas, delaminations, horn silver.