Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1081. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy V Epiphanes. 205-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (13.81 g, 12h). Tyre mint. Struck circa 202-200 BC. Diademed and draped bust right / BASILEWS [PTO]LEMAIOU, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; to left, club surmounted by Tyre monogram; NI to right, DI between legs. Mørkholm, Portrait, obv. die A6, and pl. 23, 12 (for reverse); Svoronos 1297; SNG Copenhagen Supp. 1300 var. (I below NI); BMC -. Good VF, toned, die breaks on obverse. Rare. ($1000)

From the John F. Sullivan Collection. Ex Superior (5 June 2000), lot 3647.

The obverse die used for this coin was employed at both Tyre and the unlocated military mint that struck Ptolemy V's portrait coinage in Phoenicia. Plate 23, 10 shows an example of a coin struck at the military mint using this die. As that coin lacks some of the die breaks, it is clear that this die was first employed at the military mint and then transferred to Tyre.