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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 2984206, member: 87809&quot;]Hi Puckles, </p><p>If it is Svoronos 974, it seems to be Ptolemy IV. Compare to <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1088180" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1088180" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1088180</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: Head of Zeus-Ammon right, wearing ram&#039;s horn and taenia. </p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse:BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, looking back; cornucopiae decorated with 3 taenia, an ornament for the head attribute of heroes, at his shoulder; E between legs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mint and Date:&nbsp; Egypt, Alexandria, 221 - 205 BC</p><p><br /></p><p>Reference: Svoronos 148, 974. Köln 92. SNG Copenhagen 224 - 229. Weiser 92.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ptolemy IV Philopator (221 - 205 BC) was the fourth Pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt.&nbsp; Philopator means friend of his father, even though he was accused of poisoning him. The decline of the Ptolemaic dynasty began under his reign. Egypt was actually governed by Sosibios. In 219 BC he lost Seleucis in Pieira to Antiochus III the Great, but the victory at Raphia in 217 BC reestablished the equilibrium and he was able to reconquer Coele-Syria (Coele literally means hollow in Koine Greek) under Seleucid control. After a dissolute life, Ptolemy IV died aged 33 leaving a 5-year-old son under the tutelage of his sister-wife Arsinoe III.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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