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Live auction - bgr_849255 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER Hemichalque

EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER Hemichalque VF
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Estimate : 125 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 14 November 2023 14:01:52
Type : Hemichalque
Date: c. 311-305 AC.
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : copper
Diameter : 10,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,10 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Usure importante mais régulière. Joli portrait. 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 legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes repliées ; dans le champ à gauche, une couronne.

Commentary


Au droit, c’est bien la tête divinisée d’Alexandre le Grand divinisé sous les traits de Zus-Ammon. Ptolémée subtilisa le corps et le ramena à Alexandrie en attendant la construction de son cénotaphe (tombeau), le Phare d’Alexandrie, achevé par Ptoléme II.

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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