Ptolemy IV's reign was inaugurated by the murder of his mother,[2] and he was always under the dominion of favourites, male and female, who indulged his vices and conducted the government as they pleased.
He was devoted to orgiastic forms of religion and literary dilettantism. He built a temple to Homer and composed a tragedy, to which his favourite Agathocles added a commentary.
Ptolemy is said to have built a giant ship known as the tessarakonteres ("forty"), a huge galley and possibly the largest human-powered vessel ever built. The current theory is that Ptolemy's ship was an oversized catamaran galley, measuring 128 m (420 ft.).
Reverse: Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopia to the left; ΠTOΛEMAIOY_ΒAΣIΛEΩΣ, ΔI
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Weight: 36.6 g
Reverse: ΠΤΩΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopiae left, ΔΙ between legs.
Die Orientation: 4 H
Weight: 73.07 g
Reverse: Eagle on thunderbolt
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Weight: 32.15 g
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Reverse: ΠΤΟΛΕMAIOY ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; filleted cornucopia to left, ΔI between legs
Die Orientation: 11 H
Weight: 36.46 g
Reverse: eagle left; ΠTOΛEMAIOY_ΒAΣIΛEΩΣ
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Reverse: cornucopia with fillet; ΠTOΛEMAIOY_ΒAΣIΛEΩΣ
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Reverse: eagle standing on thunderbolt left; cornucopia left; ΠTOΛEMAIOY_ΒAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΣE
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