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LOT 9245715

Estimate
GBP (£) 40 - 60
EUR (€) 46 - 69
USD ($) 54 - 80

Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) (+bp*)

Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (Physcon) AR Tetradrachm. Dated RY 33 (138/7 BC). Kition mint.

Diademed head of Ptolemy I to right, wearing aegis around neck / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; L ΛΓ (date) to left, KI to right. CPE II 1432; Svoronos 1585, pl.lv 11 (ΑΓ instead of ΛΓ); SNG Copenhagen 600; DCA 54. 11.31gr, 25mm, 12h.

Near Very Fine.

PROVENANCE:
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

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