Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 2915 SESSION 16 (9.30AM FRIDAY 21ST MARCH)) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $2,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $2,000
EGYPT, Kingdom of, Ptolemy VI, Philometor, (180-145 B.C.), silver didrachm, Aradus mint, struck year 115 = 145-144 B.C. (Morkholm chronology), (6.96 g), obv. head of Ptolemy to right with aegis, within dotted border, rev. eagle to left on thunderbolt with closed wings, to left P, to right IE, around **PTOLEMAIOU BASILEWS*, (cf.S.7873, Sv.1224 (5 known, p.200, Pl.XXXVIII, 23), Morkholm [NNA 1975-6] No.323-334 [Notes 15 examples known], obv. die a30], BMC 33, SNG Cop.560). Well centred obverse and reverse, extremely fine and very rare.
Ex Spink & Son, London, December 24, 2002 (lot 77), with Spink ticket and detailed descriptive ticket in collector's flip.^Initially believed to be an issue of Ptolemy V c.195 B.C., but reattributed by Morkholm 1975-6 in NNA. Another example of the date 116 sold by NAC, October 6, 2016 (lot 1148) extremely fine realised 3750 CHF.
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