Triton XVII, Lot: 425. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy V Epiphanes. 204-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 13.86 g, 12h). Uncertain military mint in Phoenicia. Struck circa 202-200 BC. Diademed and draped bust right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; B to left, NI between legs. Svoronos 1275; Mørkholm, Portrait, Group XIV, dies A9/P39; cf. SNG Copenhagen 529 (same rev. die, portrait of Ptolemy IV); Noeske –; BMC 64; Hunterian 3 (same dies). Good VF, toned.