WHC 531

Inventory number: WHC 531
Period: Hellenistic
Dynasty: Lagid/Ptolemaic
Category: Lagid/Ptolemaic Royal
Ruler: Ptolemy V
Mint: Tyre
Date: 201/0-199/8 BC
Denomination: Tetradrachm
Material: AR
Diameter: 25 mm
Weight: 13.86 g
Axis: 12 h
Reference: CPE II, 1072; Svoronos 1297; SNG Copenhagen 505.
Acquisition: CNG, Esale 375, 57; from the Dennis Rider Collection of the Coins of Tyre; Ex Garth R. Drewry Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 104, 22 December 2004), lot 117.
Date of acquisition: 2016-01-01

Diademed and draped bust of Ptolemy V r.; dotted border.

Eagle, wings closed, standing l. on thunderbolt; dotted border.

ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ-ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ; Mongram of Tyre/club in l. field; NI in r. field; ΔI between legs.