v34_0310 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 420.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 420.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 473.00 €
Starting price : 420.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 420.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 473.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 275/274 - 266/265 AC.
Mint name / Town : Chypre, Kition
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,19 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait, bien venu à la frappe. Joli revers où toutes les plumes de l’aigle sont visibles. Recouvert d’une jolie patine de collection avec des reflets mordorés et bleutés acier
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// ST/ (PA)
Reverse translation : (Ptolémée roi).
Commentary
Semble de même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de Meydancikkale (Gülnar II n° 5012-5014, pl. 150).
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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