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Auction 100 - Part 2 7 October 2015
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PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy V Epiphanes. 204-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 14.27 g, 1h). Tyre mint. Diademed and draped bust right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; to left, club surmounted by Tyre monogram; NI to right, ΔI between legs. Svoronos 1297; Mørkholm, Portrait, pl. 23, 12, and obv. die A9; SNG Copenhagen 505 var. (control between legs); Noeske –. EF, toned, faint scratch in field on obverse. Rare.
Mørkholm's study of the portrait coinage of Ptolemy V focused on the "main series", which comprises a variety of issues from an uncertain military mint in Phoenicia during the Fifth Syrian War. In his die study, he noted that obverse die A6 of the uncertain mint was also known to have been used at the mint of Tyre. This coin presents a new obverse die link based on die A9 (see the following lot for an issue of the military mint struck with this die).
Mørkholm's study of the portrait coinage of Ptolemy V focused on the "main series", which comprises a variety of issues from an uncertain military mint in Phoenicia during the Fifth Syrian War. In his die study, he noted that obverse die A6 of the uncertain mint was also known to have been used at the mint of Tyre. This coin presents a new obverse die link based on die A9 (see the following lot for an issue of the military mint struck with this die).