PTOLEMY VIII SILVER TETRADRACHM – RARE ISSUE OF CYPRUS DATED 135/4 BC EX SALTON COLLECTION – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED GREEK PTOLEMAIC COIN (Inv. 18538)

$1,550.00

FPL VI, 65 (18538). EGYPT. PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM. PTOLEMY VIII, 170-116 BC.
Silver tetradrachm, 14.14 g, 26 mm. Issue of Salamis, Cyprus, dated RY 36 (135/4 BC).
Obv. Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis. Rev. ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, transverse thyrsus with fillets in background, LΛΓ (date) in left field, ΣΑ in right field.
Svoronos 1548; Olivier, Archè et chrêmata en Égypte, 572-577 (obverse die 128, here in a worn state with numerous die breaks).
Ex Salton Collection, likely acquired in the 1950s-1960s when Mr. Salton owned a numismatic firm in New York.
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 5/5, Surface 5/5, an extremely rare emission with Olivier cataloguing 6 tetradrachms and no other specimen on CoinArchives.