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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 4583960, member: 104887&quot;]Hi All,</p><p><br /></p><p>Per Wikipedia, Ptolemy V was born 9 October 210 BCE and inherited the throne at the age of five in 204 BCE, when his parents died in suspicious circumstances, possibly poisoned. This coin was minted sometime during the Fifth Syrian War (202-196 BCE), when Ptolemy V would have been between the ages of 8 and 14. For more details on Ptolemy V see the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_V_Epiphanes" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_V_Epiphanes" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia entry</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_V_Epiphanes" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_V_Epiphanes" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_V_Epiphanes</a> .</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1135233[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>PTOLEMY V EPIPHANES (205/204-180 BCE)</b></p><p><b>PHOENICIA, DORA, Fifth Syrian War Coinage</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>AR STATER (TETRADRACHM)</b></p><p><b>Size:</b> 24x25 mm</p><p><b>Weight:</b> 12.58 g</p><p><b>Die Axis:</b> 0</p><p><b>Dies:</b> A21/P02 [Die information comes from Carlen &amp; Lorber &quot;The Fifth Syrian War portrait coinage. A die study&quot; (RNB vol CLXV, 2019). THIS coin listed for DORA, page 214, #4.]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>OBV:</b> Ptolemy V portrait bust diademmed and wearing chlamys, facing right, barley ear on diadem. Dotted border.</p><p><b>REV:</b> Εagle on thunderbolt facing left, wings closed. Legend: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙOY ΒΑΣΙΛ[ΕΩΣ]. In left field: ΔΩ. Dotted border.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Refs:</b> Svoronos 1262, pl xli, 23 [4 listed]; SNG Copenhagen Suppl. 1294; Mørkholm, &quot;Some coins of Ptolemy V from Palestine&quot; in INJ 5 (1981), 9 (dies A3/P7) [9 listed]. Early Hellenistic Coinage 320.</p><p>Hoards: There were 4 in Syria, 1981 (CH VII, 90 = CH VIII, 339 = EH I, 105), Meadows 850-853.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Notes:</b> Reverse die flaw at 11:00 position above Delta. Triton XII, 390 (same dies, no flaw on reverse). Same reverse die as EH 1 105, The &quot;Syria&#039;&#039; 1981 Hoard #851 (no flaw) and Morkholm (IJN 5 1981) #6.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>ex-CNG CLASSICAL NUMISMATIC GROUP, INC eAuction 411, Lot #250</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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