435, Lot: 183. Estimate $150. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (Physcon). 145-116 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.35 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Dated RY 25 (146/5 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; LKE (date) to left, ΠA to right. Svoronos 1437; Olivier 4444–56 var. (unlisted dies); Paphos Hoard pl. XVIII, 11; SNG Copenhagen 323; DCA 54. VF, some roughness, scratch and dig on reverse. Rare.

It is possible that this is an issue of Pahphos, but no examples are recorded for this date from that mint.