Watch List notes:

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Kleopatra VII Thea Neotera. 51-30 BC. Æ Obol – 40 Drachmai (20mm, 8.45 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Diademed and draped bust right / BACIΛICCHC KΛEOΠATPAC, Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopia to left, M to right. Svoronos 1872; Weiser 184; SNG Copenhagen 422–4; BMC 6–11; Noske 383; B. Andreae & K. Rhein, Kleopatra und die Caesaren. Katalog einer Ausstellung des Bucerius Kunst Forums, Hamburg (Munich, 2006), no. x = S. Walker & P. Higgs, Cleopatra of Egypt, from history to myth (London, 2001), no. 185 (this coin). Good VF, attractive red-brown and green patina. Excellent portrait.


From the Kallman Collection. Ex Guy Weill Goudchaux Collection (Triton XIII, 5 January 2010), lot 240.