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Auction: 9008 - The John Marshall Collection, other Ancient, British, World Coins, Comm Medals & Books
Lot: 431

Ptolemy XII, (2nd reign, 55-51 BC), AR Tetradrachm, 12.38g, Alexandria, 52/51 BC, diademed head of Ptolemy I right, rev. ÐtoËemaioy baÓiËeÙÓ, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, palm-branch over far wing, date aË (= year 30) and headdress of Isis on left, Ða behind (SNG Copenhagen 397; Svoronos 1840), very fine Derisorily nicknamed ´Auletes´- the flute player, for his fawning subservience to Rome, he owed his second reign to Julius Caesar´s intervention, having been deposed previously as a result of his weak and dissolute rule. Estimate £ 90-120

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