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440, Lot: 236. Estimate $300.
Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. First sole reign, 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 13.29 g, 1h). Salamis mint. Dated RY 10 (172/1 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, aegis around neck / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; to left, headdress of Isis above LI (date); ΣA to right. Svoronos 1337; Olivier 295 (obv. die D61 [not recorded for date]); Mørkholm & Kromann 61 (obv. die A14 [not recorded for date]); SNG Copenhagen –; DCA 41. VF, rough, porous surfaces. Extremely rare, only one coin recorded for this date (in the Hague).