Year of the (top) 10 Ptolemies

Nice collection @ValiantKnight !

Here is what I just got. Is this genuine?

 

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Let's share my very small Ptolemaic collection


Ptolemy II Philadelphos (285-246 BC). Alexandria. AE Hemiobol, 24 mm, 10.18 g.
Obv.: Head of deified Alexander right, wearing elephant's skin headdress.
Rev.: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY, eagle standing left on thunderbolt.


Ptolemy III Euergetes (246-222 BC). Alexandria. AE Tetrobol, 38 mm, 44.16 g.
Obv.: Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon right.
Rev.: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY, eagle standing left, head right, on thunderbolt; filleted cornucopia over shoulder, E between legs.


Ptolemy V Epiphanes (204-180 BC). Alexandria. AE 27 mm, 19.80 g.
Obv.: Head of Isis right, wearing wreath of grain ears, and her hair in long curls
Rev.: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY, eagle with open wings standing left on thunderbolt.
Series 6


Ptolemy V Epiphanes (204-180 BC). AR Tetradrachm, 27 mm, 13.20 g. Uncertain mint in Cyprus(?). Dated year 72 (191/0 BC).
Obv.: Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis.
Rev.: ΠTOΛEMAIOY ΣΩTHPOΣ, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, OB (date) in left field.

... and there are also these egyptianizing bronze coins struck by the Seleucid king Antiochos IV Epiphanes, obviously for circulation in Egypt. Antiochos IV had been an hostage in Rome, and came back to Syria in 175 to topple the usurper Heliodoros and reclaim power with Rome's support. But, in 168 BC, Antiochos invaded Egypt, defeated Ptolemy VI's army and was about to take Alexandria. At this very moment the Roman senator C. Popilius Laenas suddenly appeared in Eleusis, near Alexandria, and in the name of the Senate ordered Antiochos to immediately withdraw his forces from Egypt. Though reluctantly, he complied: such was the authority of Rome.
Before this incident, Antiochos was so confident he was going to annex Egypt that he had Egyptian bronze coins struck in his name. These coins have Egyptian obverses (head of Zeus Ammon or Isis), Egyptian flans (bevelled edges, central pit), an eagle on reverse but the legend written in the Seleucid manner. They are generally considered minted in Antioch for Egypt, but it is unlikely that the Antioch mint mastered the typically Egyptian technique of bevelled flans with central holes. These coins may as well have been minted in Egypt during the short-lived Seleucid occupation in the Delta, in 168 BC.


Antiochos IV Epiphanes (175-164 BC). AE Hemidrachm, 33 mm, 39.05 g. "Egyptianizing" series, with bevelled edges, struck in honour of Antiochos IV's victories over Egypt, Antioch (?) 169-168.
Obv.: Laureate head of Zeus-Serapis to right, with Osiris cap upon taenia.
Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΘΕΟΥ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ, eagle standing right on thunderbolt.

Antiochos IV Epiphanes (175-164 BC). AE 27 mm, 18.54 g. "Egyptianizing" series, but with straight edges and no central pit. Antioch (?) 169-168.
Obv.: Head of Isis to right, with Isis headdress upon taenia.
Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΘΕΟΥ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ, eagle with closed wings, standing to right on thunderbolt

 

Hi @Director,

It is real.

- Broucheion