bgr_301022 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Tétradrachme
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Price : 550.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 284-283 AC.
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,56 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Petite faiblesse de frappe au revers. 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// R/ PAR.
Reverse translation : (Ptolémée roi).
Commentary
C’est l’une des premières émissions pour Ptolémée II. Très belle expression de visage. Un graffiti sur le visage. Une minuscule contremarque en forme de croisette derrière l’aigle. Un exemplaire comparable s’est vendu 510 € avec un maximum à 578 € et cinq offres dans MONNAIES 31, n° 103.
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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