Watch List notes:

PTOLEMAIC KINGS OF EGYPT. Cleopatra III & Ptolemy IX Soter II (Lathyros), 116-107 BC. Obol (?) (Bronze, 19 mm, 6.59 g, 12 h), Kyrene. Diademed head of Zeus Ammon to right, with ram's horn in his hair and over the diadem. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠTΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ Two eagles with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt; to left, silphium plant. SNG Copenhagen 455 ('Ptolemy VIII - Ptolemy Apion'). Svoronos 1158 ('Ptolemy IV'). Weiser -. Rare. Somwhat rough, otherwise, about very fine.


From the Rhakotis Collection, formed in the 1960s and 1970s (with collector's ticket), Leu Web Auction 16, 22 May 2021, 1896.

This interesting issue employs the famed silphium plant as its mint mark.