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LOT 9245714
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£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) (+bp*)
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (Physcon) AR Tetradrachm. Dated RY 35 (136/5 BC). Salamis mint.
Diademed head of Ptolemy I to right, wearing aegis around neck / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; L ΛE (date) to left, ΣΛ to right. CPE II 1389; Svoronos 1547, pl.liii, 16; SNG Copenhagen -. 10.73gr, 25mm, 12h.
Good Fine. Very rare; only one example on CoinArchives (cgb.fr, Mail Bid Sale 36, 23 October 2008, 270).
PROVENANCE:
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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