Live auction - bgr_654981 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 450 € |
| Price : | 240 € |
| Maximum bid : | 240 € |
| End of the sale : | 27 April 2021 14:35:26 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 266-265 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sidon, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,41 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan légèrement décentré au droit sur un beau buste de Ptolémée II. Usure plus marquée au revers. Jolie patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé de Ptolémée Ier à droite avec l'égide nouée autour du cou.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes entre ouvertes ; dans le champ à gauche, deux lettres de l’atelier.
Reverse legend : [PTOLEMAIOU] - BAZILEW[S]/ SI.
Commentary
Un poinçon devant le nez en forme de trèfle à quatre feuilles. Un graffiti derrière l’aigle formé d’un monogramme (DI). L’exemplaire du trésor de Meydancikkale, n° 4604, pl 140 de l’atelier de Sidon, présente un graffiti avec les mêmes lettres sous le bec de l’aigle.
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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