Ptolemy IX Soter II. AE Obol 21 mm, 9.02 g. Kyrene mint.

Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon right. 

BASILEWS PTOLEMAIOY, Two eagles standing left on thunderbolt, wings closed. Silphium plant in left field.

Svoronos 1158 (Ptolemy IV but "Possibly belonging to a  later reign"; SNG Copenhagen 455 ("Ptolemy VIII").

Rare.

With permission of Nomos AG - obolos 11, Lot 390, Dec 2018