PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - HELLENISTIC EGYPTIAN EMPIRE

REIGN OF PTOLEMY IV "PHILOPATER (LOVER OF THE COUNTRY or FATHER LOVING)" (221-205 BC)

PTOLEMAIC OR LAGID DYNASTY

THICK BRONZE COIN (AE34) CERTIFIED BY NGC CHOICE FINE

STRIKE: 5/5

SURFACE: 3/5

OBV: HEAD OF THE HORNED ZEUS -AMMON FACING RIGHT.

REV: EAGLE STANDING ON THUNDERBOLT; CORNUCOPIA LEFT.

 

PTOLEMY IV WAS THE FOURTH PHAROAH OF THE DYNASTY FOUNDED BY PTOLEMY I SOTER (ONE OF THE DIADOCHI , OR SUCCESSORS, AND A GENERAL OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT).

PTOLEMY IV WAS CONTROLLED BY MALE AND FEMALE COURT FAVORITES THAT RULED EGYPT HOWEVER THEY PLEASED IN HIS NAME, WHILE CATERING TO HIS VICES.

ALTHOUGH EGYPT WARRED SUCCESFULLY AGAINST THE ARMIES OF ANTIOCHUS III AND THE SELEUCID EMPIRE, THUS SECURING EGYPT'S NORTHERN FRONTIERS, PTOLEMY IV'S REIGN MARKED THE DECLINE OF THE PTOLEMAIC EMPIRE AND A CENTURY OF WAR WITH THE SELEUCIDS.

IN 3 MACABEES, PTOLEMY IS SAID TO HAVE WANTED TO WORSHIP AT THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM AFTER HIS VICTORY OVER ANTIOCHUS III, BUT MIRACULOUSLY WAS BARRED FROM THE TEMPLE BY AN UNSEEN FORCE.

HE THEN ATTEMPTED TO EXECUTE THE JEWS OF ALEXANDRIA IN HIS HIPPODROME, BUT ALL THE PAPER IN THE CITY WAS USED UP, AND THE NAMES OF THE INTENDED VICTIMS COULD NOT BE WRITTEN DOWN, SO THE CONDEMNED WERE SET FREE.

THE CHRONICLE GOES ON TO DESCRIBE THE INTOXICATION OF 500 WAR ELEPHANTS, FOR THEIR USE IN CRUSHING THE JEWS, BUT GOD INTERVENED, AND AGAIN THE JEWS ESCAPED PTOLEMY'S WRATH. IT WAS WRITTEN THAT THE KING WAS THEREAFTER CONVERTED (WHICH SEEMS UNLIKELY), AND PROCLAIMED THE DATE A DAY OF DELIVERANCE.

CONTAINS 36.2 GRAMS OF BRONZE

33 MM IN DIAMETER

 









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