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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Ptolemaic Egypt| > GP85911
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy IV Philopator, 221 - 204 B.C.
|Ptolemaic| |Egypt|, |Ptolemaic| |Kingdom| |of| |Egypt,| |Ptolemy| |IV| |Philopator,| |221| |-| |204| |B.C.|, Ptolemy IV's surname Philopator means father lover, ironic since according to some authorities he poisoned his father. Ptolemy IV is a major protagonist of the apocryphal 3 Maccabees, which describes events following the Battle of Raphia, in both Jerusalem and Alexandria. He was a cruel and evil monarch.
GP85911. Bronze hemidrachm, Lorber CPE B510, Svoronos 993, SNG Cop 212, SNG Milan 222, Weiser 63, Hosking 49, Weber 8259, Noeske -, VF, obverse double struck including shifting centration dimple, tiny edge cracks, central cavities, Alexandria mint, weight 32.920g, maximum diameter 36.6mm, die axis 0o, c. 219 - 204 B.C.; obverse head of Zeus Ammon right, wearing taenia; reverse ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, eagle standing left on fulmen (thunderbolt), head left, wings closed, filleted cornucopia left, Σ or ΣΕ monogram between legs; heavy large bronze; SOLD




  







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