Watch List notes:

PTOLEMAIC KINGS OF EGYPT. Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (Physcon), as King in Kyrene, 163-145 BC. AE (Bronze, 15 mm, 2.08 g, 12 h), Kyrene. Diademed head of Zeus Ammon to right, with ram's horn in his hair and over the diadem. Rev. ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΟΥ BA[ΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛ] Eagle with spread wings standing left on thunderbolt. Noeske 291-6 ('uncertain mint in Cyprus'). SNG Copenhagen 658-9 ('uncertain mint in Cyprus'). Svoronos 1655 ('Alexandria'). Weiser -. Rare. Minor deposits, otherwise, very fine.


From the Rhakotis Collection, formed in the 1960s and 1970s (with collector's ticket), Leu Web Auction 16, 22 May 2021, 1890.