RARE Splendid Portrait PTOLEMAIC KINGS Cleopatra III & Ptolemy IX Ancient Coin

  

Kleopatra III & Ptolemy IX Soter II (Lathyros). Æ Obol (20mm, 7.05 g, 1h). Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon right / Two eagles with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt; silphium plant to left. Svoronos 1158 (Ptolemy IV); Weiser -; SNG Copenhagen 455 (Ptolemy VIII-Ptolemy Apion); Asolati 80 (Ptolemy VI-VIII).

VF, dark brown patina with green highlights/deposits. Ptolemaic bronze expert Daniel Wolf has attributed this type to Ptolemy VIII Euergetes as several types actually have the epithet name of Ptolemy VIII Euergeties II on the reverse as part of the usual Basileos Ptolemaioy inscriptio.