Ancient Coins

Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy IX Soter II (Lathyros) and Kleopatra III, tetradrachm, Alexandria, dated RY 10 = 108/7 BC, diademed head of Ptolemy I r., [wearing aegis], rev. BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ, eagle standing l. on thunderbolt with wings closed, LI (date) to left, ΠA to right, wt. 14.29gms. (Svoronos 1671; SNG Copenhagen 356; DCA 60); and Epeiros, Epirote Republic, drachm, c. 198-168 BC, Lykiskos, magistrate, head of Zeus Dodonaios wearing oak wreath r., ΛYKIΣKOΣ before, rev. ΑΠΕΙΡΩΤΑΝ, eagle standing r. on thunderbolt with closed wings, all within oak wreath, wt. 3.93gms. (Franke, Epeiros p.184, 245; HGC 3.1, 171), both good very fine, the latter with areas of weak strike