v34_0311 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 380.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 380.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 285/284 - 275/274 AC.
Mint name / Town : Chypre, Paphos
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 13,76 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire parfaitement centré sur un flan régulier. Usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Très jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé de Ptolémée à droite avec l'égide nouée autour du cou.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes entrouvertes.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU- BASILEWS// KE
Reverse translation : (Ptolémée roi).
Commentary
Même coin de droit que les trois exemplaires du trésor de Meydancikkale (Gulnar II, n° 5100-5102, pl. 153).
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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