Live auction - bgr_341029 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 1 200 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 03 December 2014 14:40:35 |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 274/273 - 271/270 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sidon, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,10 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Ptolémée II avec l’égide bien visible. Joli revers finement détaillé. Magnifique patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés, et bleutés irisés
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 - BAZILEWS/ (SI).
Commentary
Poids léger. Il faudrait lire et interpréter le monogramme verticalement et donc y voir une émission précoce pour l’atelier de Sidon. Le droit est très proche des exemplaires du trésor de Meydancikkale n° 4454-4456, pl. 139, en particulier pour le droit.
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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