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Auction: 11023 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 610

Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy VI(?) (c.180145 BC), AR Didrachm, 6.50g, Cyrene (?), diademed head of Ptolemy I right, aegis round neck, rev. baie toemaioy, eagle standing right (sic) on thunderbolt, torch on right (Svoronos - ; SNG Copenhagen - ), apparently unpublished, the reverse struck in mirror-image, resulting in the eagle and legend being reversed. The symbol is unrecorded, and the coin´s N. African provenance suggests a Cyrenaican issue, good fine Estimate £ 150-200

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