PTOLEMAIC KINGS OF EGYPT. Ptolemy V Epiphanes, 205-180 BC


PTOLEMAIC KINGS OF EGYPT. Ptolemy V Epiphanes, 205-180 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 26 mm, 14.00 g, 12 h), Soloi in Cilicia. Jugate busts to right of Serapis, laureate, bearded and draped, and Isis, crowned, diademed and draped. Rev. ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ Eagle, with closed wings and cornucopia at his shoulder, standing to left on thunderbolt, his head turned back to right; in field to left, owl standing to left above ME; in field to right, AP. Landvatter 94-96 var (O32/R-). Svoronos 1136 var. Struck from the same dies as Nomos 20, 2020, 290. An attractive and sharply struck coin. Very slight traces of double-striking and die rust, otherwise, virtually as struck.


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