Sale: Triton X, Lot: 426. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Cleopatra VII Thea Neotera. 51-30 BC. Æ 20mm (6.37 g, 12h). Orthoseia mint. Dated RY 2 (36/35 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / OPQWCIEWN in exergue, Baal of Orthoseia right in biga drawn by griffins; LB to left. RPC I 4501 (same dies as plate coin); AUB -; BMC -; SNG Copenhagen 174 var. (RY); Classical Numismatic Group 63, lot 1083 (same dies). VF, black-green patina with lighter green overtones. Rare.