Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 748. Estimate $250.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $465. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI. 180-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (12.50 gm). Salamis mint. Dated year 33 (149/8 BC). Diademed bust right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; date and stylis before, SA behind. Svoronos 1465 var. (no symbols); Nicolau & Mørkholm, A Ptolemaic Coin Hoard, Paphos I (Nicosia, 1976), 31 (same obverse die); SNG Copenhagen -. Good VF, surfaces evenly porous. Very rare variety; only one specimen published. ($250)