395, Lot: 218. Estimate $150. Sold for $360. 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, 14.15 g, 12h). Salamis mint. Dated RY 4 (178/7 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; piloi of the Dioskouroi across upper field; to left, LΔ (date) above ΣA; petasos with diadem to right. Svoronos 1326 var. (position of ΣA); Mørkholm & Kromann 25–6 (A6/P17); SNG Copenhagen –; McClean 9805 (same dies); DCA 47. VF, toned, small pit on obverse, light deposits.