Watch List notes:

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy II Philadelphos. 285-246 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.20 g, 12h). Gaza mint. Dated RY 37 (249/8 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck / ΠT[OΛEMAIOY] ΣΩTHPOS, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; to left, ΓA monogram above AN monogram; to right, ΛZ (date) above Z. Svoronos 833; SNG Copenhagen 459; Noeske –; BMC 141; Meydancikkale 4029–30. Good VF, toned. Very rare.


From the Leo & Paula Gorelkin Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review 19.2 (Second Quarter 1994), no. 138.