CNG 100, Lot: 1612. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy V Epiphanes. 204-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.94 g, 12h). Uncertain military mint in Phoenicia. Struck circa 202-200 BC. Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; B to left, NI between legs. Svoronos 1277; Mørkholm, Portrait, Group XIV, dies A9/P– (unlisted rev. die); SNG Copenhagen –; Noeske –; BMC 64; Hunterian 3 (same obv. die). Good VF, lightly toned, small spot of porosity along edge, a few light scratches and marks under tone.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Maison Platt, 1980s.

See previous lot for an issue of Tyre that was struck with the same obverse die as this coin.