Æ 31 - Ptolemy V Epiphanes and Ptolemy VI Philometor Alexandria

This bronze was struck across the co-regency period during which the young Ptolemy V, orphaned by the murder of his mother Agathoclea's faction and his father's death in 204 BC, ruled first under a series of manipulative regents and then alongside his infant son Ptolemy VI from around 186 BC onward. Egypt during this window was haemorrhaging territory — the Fifth Syrian War ended with the humiliating loss of Coele-Syria to the Seleucids at Panion in 200 BC — and the Rosetta Stone decree of 196 BC was itself a product of the crown's desperate need to placate a restive native priesthood.

The Alexandria mint attribution follows Svoronos, though some specimens assigned to this type show fabric variations suggesting possible auxiliary production.