395, Lot: 216. Estimate $150. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy V Epiphanes. 204-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.13 g, 1h). Uncertain mint in Cyprus(?). Dated year 79 of an uncertain era (184/3 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; OΘ (date) in exergue. Svoronos 1099; Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 69–71 (obv. die A17 [Arados]); SNG Copenhagen –; DCA 73. VF, lightly toned, slightly off center.