Rare Ptolemy IV Portrait Tetradrachm

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 567. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy V Epiphanes. 205-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.08 g, 12h). Tyre mint. Diademed and draped bust of Ptolemy IV right / Eagle standing right on thunderbolt; WS monogram to left, Tyre monogram to right. Svoronos 1177; SNG Copenhagen -. Near EF, a few minor deposits. Very rare.

Ex UBS 61 (14 September 2004), lot 4449.