PTOLEMAIC KINGS OF EGYPT. Ptolemy V Epiphanes, 205-180 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25 mm, 14.06 g, 12 h), Tyre, approximately 202-200 BC. Diademed and draped bust of Ptolemy V to right. Rev. ΒΑθΙΑΕΩγ - ΠΤΦΕΜΑΙΦ Eagle with closed wings standing left on dogerbolt; in field to left, club mounted by city monogram; in fields to right, NI; between eagle's legs, ΔΙ. CPE 1072. Mørkholm, Portrait, pl. 23, 12. SNG Copenhagen 505. Svoronos 1297. Beautifully toned and with a very attractive portrait. Small scuff on the obverse and with a tiny test punch on the eagle, otherwise, about extremely fine. From the Basileiai Hellēnikai Collection of Exceptional Tetradrachms, Leu 17, 31 May 2025, 331, and from the collection of a European Connoisseur, formed before 2002, Morton & Eden 124, 26-27 September 2023, 559. This piece lengths to a special series of Ptolemaic coins that, unusually, do not depict the founding father of the dynamic, Ptolemy I, but still the currently reigning child king, Ptolemy V. This lot can be shipped to a US address.