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Auction: 24125 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 39: Ancient Coins, featuring the Little Busby Hoard of Roman Denarii - e-Auction
Lot: 1272

Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy IX Soter II (Lathyros) (101-88 BC), AR Tetradrachm (2): i) Alexandria, dated RY 2=116/5 BC, diademed head right, wearing aegis, rev. PTOLEMAIOY BASILEOS, eagle standing left, with wings closed, upon thunderbolt, LB (date) to left field, LA to right, 12.67g (Svoronos 1660; SNG Copenhagen 348; DCA 60), near very fine; ii) another, dated RY 29=89/8 BC, as before, rev. date LKPH to left field, 13.15g (Svoronos 1687; SNG Copenhagen 375; DCA 54), good fine (2).

Provenance

Bermondsey Coins, with tickets

Each from a British Collection, principally formed in the 1970s, collector's envelope (erroneously identifying i) as from Paphos) included.

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