PTOLEMAIC EGYPT. Ptolemy IV Philopater (222-205/4 BC). AR stater or tetradrachm (25mm, 13.97 gm, 12h). NGC Choice VF 5/5 - 3/5. Uncertain Mint 42 (in Syria or Phoenicia?), dated Year 48 of an uncertain era (215/4(?) BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, aegis tied around neck; dotted border / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙOΥ-ΣΩTHPOΣ, eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt; MH (date) between eagle's legs, dotted border. CPE 950. Svoronos 849. In her new publication, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire, Catharine Lorber proposes this issue could be tied to an Syro-Phoenician era, beginning in 262/1 BC, that might have replaced an aborted Raphian Era dating system.

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