v34_0312 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 30
Mint name / Town : Phénicie, Tyr
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,15 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés, irrégulier. Usure régulière, parfaitement lisible. Beau portrait. Joli revers de style fin. Une épaisse patine grise recouvre l’exemplaire avec des reflets mordorés
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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 entr'ouvertes ; dans le champ monogramme de Tyr et massue; date et monogramme.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - SWTHROS/ TUR - L/ (AB)// (MU).
Reverse translation : (Ptolémée le grand).
Commentary
Même coin de droit que les exemplaires du trésor de Meydancikkale (Gülnar n° 4407-4411, pl. 137).
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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