Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 390. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy V Epiphanes. 205-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.01 g, 12h). Dora mint. Struck circa 205-200 BC. Diademed and draped bust of Ptolemy V right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY, Eagle standing right on thunderbolt; ΔΩ to left. Svoronos 1262; O. Mørkholm, “Some coins of Ptolemy V from Palestine” in INJ 5 (1981), 9 (A3/P7 – this coin, illustrated); SNG Copenhagen Supp. 1294; BMC -; Noske -; EHC 320. Near EF. Extremely rare, only nine examples recorded by Mørkholm.

Ex Syria, 1981 Hoard (CH VII, 90).