Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 588. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy V Epiphanes. 205-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.23 gm, 12h). Sidon mint. Circa 202-200 BC. Diademed bust of Ptolemy IV right / BASILEWS PTOLEMAIOU, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; SI between legs. Cf. Svoronos 1294; Mørkholm, Portrait pg. 206; BMC Ptolemies -; SNG Copenhagen -; McClean 9802 var. EF. Unrecorded from this mint with this style obverse portrait. ($3000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.

Although the obverse die is not recorded by Mørkholm, he does note that two of the portrait dies he studied were used at Sidon before being transferred to the military mint in Phoenicia (see Mørkholm, pg. 206 and pl. 23, 11).