Watch List notes:

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy IV Philopator. 222-205/4 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.84 g, 12h). Askelon mint. Dated RY 3 (220/19 BC). Jugate draped busts right of Serapis, wearing laurel wreath with small atef crown above his forehead, and Isis, wearing grain ear wreath with miniature horned disc above her forehead / BAΣIΛEΩΣ [ΠT]OΛEMAIOY, eagle standing left, head right, wings closed, on thunderbolt; filleted double cornucopia over shoulder, AΣ to left, LΓ (date) to right. CPE 940 (this coin referenced); Svoronos –; Landvatter Group 8, 97a (O33/R86 – this coin); DCA –; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC –; Boston MFA –; Noeske –. Toned, a few deposits, area of weak strike at edge. Good VF. Extremely rare, one of only four examples noted by Landvatter, one additional noted in CPE, none in CoinArchives.

From the Dr. Jay M. Galst Collection. Ex Superior (10 December 1993), lot 1773.