Ancient Gold

Sale 78    5–8 Apr 2005   Hotel InterContinental   Sydney

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Lot 4908    Session 16 (9.30am Friday)    Ancient Gold

Estimate $8,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $9,000

EGYPT, Kingdom of, Ptolemy II, (283-246 B.C.), gold pentadrachm, issued 274-265 B.C., (17.772 grams), Kition (or Salamis) mint, obv. diademed head of Ptolemy I to right, with aegis, rev. eagle to left with closed wings, standing on thunderbolt, in front monogram **ST / PA*, around **BASILEWS PTOLEMAIOU*, (S.7757, Sv. 367 [p.58], Mionnet Vi, 2, 6; example in Paris]). Attractive nearly extremely fine with some original mint bloom, very rare.

Tetradrachms with these symbols are well known and the example in Hans Christoph Noeske book 'Die Munzen der Ptolemaer' (Frankfurt Museum, 2000) attributes the issue to the above mint and for this period of Ptolemy's reign. Svoronos knew of only one example of this variety.

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