bgr_887504 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER Hemichalque
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Type : Hemichalque
Date: c. 316-305 AC.
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : copper
Diameter : 10,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 0,65 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire centré. Joli revers. Usure plus marquée au droi.; Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection André Ronde
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d’Alexandre le Grand à droite avec la corne d’Ammon.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes repliées .
Reverse legend : ALE
Historical background
EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER
(323-283 BC)
King
Ptolemy was a childhood friend of Alexander. After the death of the latter in 323 BC, he received the satrapy of Egypt. Diadoque, he fought for forty years against his colleagues, Lysimachus, Seleucus, Antigone and Demetrius. Ptolemy was the only successor of Alexander to die in his bed.
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