bgr_262294 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Hemichalque
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 125.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 125.00 €
Type : Hemichalque
Date: c. 270 AC.
Mint name / Town : Ptolémaïs, Phénicie
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17,50 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,12 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait de Zeus-Ammon. Joli revers de style fin Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
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 ; un trépied stylisé dans le champ à gauche.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - BASILEWS.
Commentary
C’est la plus petit monnaie divisionnaire frappée dans le système lagide sous Ptolémée II Philadelphe. Ce type de bronze semble beaucoup plus rare pour l’atelier de Ptolémaïs avec un trépied qui a parfois été confondu avec la lyre qui est attribué à l’atelier de Joppé.
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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