454, Lot: 203. Estimate $200. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor. First sole reign, 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.36 g, 1h). Uncertain mint in Cyprus. Dated year 84 of an uncertain era (179/8 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, aegis around neck / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; ΠΔ (date) to left. Svoronos 1106; Olivier 127–133 (D16/R57); Mørkholm,
Ptolemaic 112–8 (A23/P82); SNG Copenhagen 545 (same obv. die); DCA 73; McClean 9798 (same dies). Attractive old cabinet tone. Good VF.