JUBA II & PTOLEMY SILVER DENARIUS – FATHER AND SON ISSUE PUBLISHED AND PLATED BY SPOERRI-BUTCHER – XF NGC GRADED KINGDOM OF MAURETANIA COIN (Inv. 19107)

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19107. KINGDOM OF MAURETANIA. JUBA II & PTOLEMY, 25 BC–AD 24.
Silver denarius, 3.37 g, 17 mm. Issue of Caesarea, Mauretania.
Obv. REX IVBA, diademed head of Juba II right. Rev. REX PTOLEMAEVS REGIS IVBAE F, youthful draped and diademed bust of Ptolemy left.
Mazard 379; M. Spoerri–Butcher. “Juba II de Maurétanie (25 a.C.–24 p.C.). Quelques réflexions concernant le classement du numéraire d’argent non daté” in Mélanges Amandry, Group B, dies A13/R5, 26 (this coin listed and illustrated).
Ex Gorny & Mosch 134, 10/11/2004, lot 1757.
NGC graded CHOCE XF, Strike 3/5, Surface 3/5, “brushed,” a coin depicting Cleopatra VII’s grandson and the last member of the Ptolemaic line. Ptolemy was the son of Cleopatra Selene and Juba of Mauretania and here he is proclaimed “king” alongside his father. His portrait on this coin is of exceptional quality, quite different from the stylized images often seen for this series.