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388, Lot: 200. Estimate $200.
Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. First sole reign, 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.23 g, 1h). Uncertain mint in Cyprus(?). Dated year 85 (178/7 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; ΠЄ (date) in left field. Svoronos 1107; Carlen 2–5 var. (O2/R– [unlisted rev. die]); SNG Copenhagen Supp. 1311 (same obv. die); DCA 73. Good VF, some roughness on obverse. Very rare date, only 8 examples noted by Carlen.