Live auction - bgr_843380 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Drachme
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| Estimate : | 1 200 € |
| Price : | 1 250 € |
| Maximum bid : | 1 300 € |
| End of the sale : | 05 September 2023 14:18:21 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 274/273 - 273/272 AC.
Mint name / Town : Égypte, Alexandrie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16,50 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,47 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée présentant un très joli revers, finement détaillé. Beau buste de Ptolémée. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection André Ronde
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé de Ptolémée à droite avec l'égide nouée autour du cou ; grènetis circulaire perlé.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes entrouvertes ; dans le champ à gauche, un bouclier ; grènetis circulaire perlé.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - BASILEXS// S/ I
Reverse translation : (de Ptolémée roi).
Historical background
EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS
(285-246 BC)
Ptolemy II succeeded his father in 283 BC but he was already associated with business before that date. Married in 288 BC to Arsinoe, the daughter of Lysimachus, he married his second wife in 276 BC his sister, Arsinoe II. Daughter of Ptolemy I and Berenice, she had married successively Lysimachus, then Ptolemy Ceraunos, her half-brother, and was deified, identified with the goddess Hathor, when she died in 271 BC. Ptolemy issued an important coinage restitution to recall his memory. During the last twenty-five years of his life, Ptolemy II completed the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
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