GREEK COINS
Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt
Ptolemy IV Philopator, 225-205 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25mm, 14.28 g 11), Sidon. Jugate busts right of Serapis, laureate, bearded and draped, and Isis, crowned, diademed and draped. Rev. ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ Eagle with closed wings standing on thunderbolt to left, his head turned back to right, with cornucopiae at his shoulder; in field to left, Ω/Σ; between legs, ΣΙ. Svoronos 1186. Rare and with a very nice obverse. The reverse slightly double struck, otherwise, extremely fine.