bgr_430766 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Dichalque
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Dichalque
Date: c. 274-261 AC.
Mint name / Town : Alexandria
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 19,55 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête de Zeus. Frappe molle au revers. Patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes déployées ; dans le champ à gauche, un bouclier et un monogramme.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - BASILEWS/ SW.
Commentary
Poids lourd. Portrait de qualité tout à fait exceptionnelle pour ce type de bronze, “hellénistique”, très proche de par son style de l’exemplaire du musée de Francfort (MP 56).
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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