fme_949731 - CLEOPATRA VII and MARK ANTONY Médaille, Reproduction d’un Tétradrachme syro-phénicien, n°30

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Type : Médaille, Reproduction d’un Tétradrachme syro-phénicien, n°30

Date: 1966

Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris

Quantity minted : 500

Metal : copper

Diameter : 69,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 190,70 g.

Edge : lisse + 1966 + corne CUIVRE + N°30/500

Puncheon : corne CUIVRE

Coments on the condition:

Patine hétérogène avec quelques taches d’oxydation

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANT WNIOCAVTOKPATWPTTIT OHTPIUHANAPU.

Obverse description : Tête nue à droite de Marc-Antoine, les cheveux courts.

Obverse legend : ANTwNIOS AUTOKRATvR TRITON TRIvN ANDRvN.

Obverse translation : Antoine Imperator pour la troisième fois, triumvir.

Reverse

Reverse description : Buste de Cléopâtre vue de trois quart de face, portant une veste et un triple collier, l’un de grosses perles pendant, un autre ras du cou, peut-être de perles, un troisième bijou en forme de croissant de lune entre les deux. La coiffure, très complexe, intègre des nattes à ras, des perles en fin de nattes sur le devant, elles sont bien distinctes sur le front, un chignon bas et un diadème.

Reverse legend : BASILISSA KLEOPATRA QEA NEwTERA.

Reverse translation : Reine Cléopâtre, nouvelle divinité.

Historical background

CLEOPATRA VII and MARK ANTONY

(39-30 BC)

Cleopatra (69-30 AC. ) is the daughter of Ptolemy XII and Cleopatra VI. She succeeded her father in 51 BC.. -VS. together with her brother and husband Ptolemy XIII (51-47 AC. ). Pompey, after the defeat of Pharsalus (48 AC. ), tries to find refuge in Egypt, but is murdered at the instigation of Ptolemy XIII. Caesar arrives in Alexandria, takes the side of Cleopatra against her brother (Alexandrian War), falls under the spell of the Queen of Egypt and has a son, Caesarion, future Ptolemy XV. Cleopatra follows the conqueror to Rome, but returns to Egypt after his death in 44 BC. -VS. She then subjugates Marc Antoine, Caesar's lieutenant and partner of Octave and Lépide in the second triumvirate. She has several children, including Ptolemy Philadelphus. The war becomes inevitable between Rome and Egypt from the proclamation of the "donation of Alexandria", where Marc Antoine projects to restore the lagide power in the East. Antony and Cleopatra are defeated at Actium in 31 BC. -VS. Antoine commits suicide the following year and Cleopatra, in order not to appear in Octave's triumph, prefers to kill herself with an asp.. Caesarion is put to death by Octavian. Seen from the East, the couple Marc Antoine and Cléopâtre is mythical, just like the one she forms with César.