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Ptolemaic Kingdom. Ptolemy V. 204-180 BC. Tetradrachm, 14.09g. (12h). Uncertain Phoenician mint, 204-199 BC. Obv: Draped and diademed bust of Ptolemy V right. Dotted border. Rx: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, monogram in left field. Dotted border. Svoronos 1258. SNG Copenhagen Suppl. 1301. BMC p. 73, 55 var. Morkholm, Israel Numismatic Journal 5 (1981), p. 9, 13. About EF.
Purchased from Hasen Tobia, 28 November 1981.
One of the rare portrait coins of Ptolemy VI. While the mint of Alexandria regularly issued coins with the portrait of the founder of the dynasty, Ptolemy I, the Ptolemaic mints in Phoenicia and Cyprus issued coins with the portrait of the current ruler on special occasions. This seems to be an accession issue, produced in, or soon after, the period when Ptolemy V ruled under the supervision of the ambitious chancellor Sosibios.
Purchased from Hasen Tobia, 28 November 1981.
One of the rare portrait coins of Ptolemy VI. While the mint of Alexandria regularly issued coins with the portrait of the founder of the dynasty, Ptolemy I, the Ptolemaic mints in Phoenicia and Cyprus issued coins with the portrait of the current ruler on special occasions. This seems to be an accession issue, produced in, or soon after, the period when Ptolemy V ruled under the supervision of the ambitious chancellor Sosibios.