436, Lot: 371. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COELESYRIA, Chalcis ad Libanum. Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII. 36-31 BC. Æ (20mm, 7.43 g, 12h). Dated RY 21 (Egyptian) and 6 (Phoenician) of Cleopatra (32/1 BC). [BAC]IΛ[ICCAC] KΛЄOΠA[TPAC], draped bust of Cleopatra right, wearing stephane; all within pelleted border / ЄTOYC KA TOY [KAI ς ΘЄAC NЄωTEPAC], bare head of Mark Antony right. Rouvier 440 (Berytus); BMC 15 (Berytus); SNG München 1006; SNG Copenhagen 383 (Phoenicia); RPC I 4771; HGC 9, 1451; DCA 476. VF, brown patina. Well-defined portrait of Cleopatra.

From the William Whetstone Collection.