PTOLEMAIC KINGS OF EGYPT. Ptolemy III Euergetes, 246-222 BC. Hemiobol (Bronze, 15 mm, 2.70 g, 12 h), Alexandria, mid 240s-mid 220s BC. Diademed head of Zeus Ammon to right, with ram's horn in his hair. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ Eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt; in field to left, cornucopiae; between eagle's legs, monogram of ΧΡ. SNG Copenhagen 185-187. Svoronos 970. An amazing little bronze in a unusually nice. Extremely fine.
From the Stoecklin collection, Switzerland, acquired prior to 1981.