Live auction - bgr_382053 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY V EPIPHANES Dichalque
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| Estimate : | 750 € |
| Price : | 450 € |
| Maximum bid : | 450 € |
| End of the sale : | 01 March 2016 14:37:00 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Dichalque
Date: c. 205-180 AC
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 15,50 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très beau buste. Revers de style fin. Jolie patine marronfoncé
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la liste OGN 32, hiver 2001, n° 64 et de la collection François Charrin
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d’Isis à droite, coiffée d’une couronne de roseaux avec une chevelure ornementée et des mèches tombant sur la nuque.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes déployées.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - BASILEWS.
Reverse translation : (de Ptolémée roi).
Commentary
Point de centrage des deux côtés.
Historical background
EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY V EPIPHANES
(204-180 BC)
Ptolemy V, king at 5, died at 29. He was crowned Pharaoh in Memphis in 197 BC. This event was immortalized by the Rosetta stone that Champollion was to transcribe 2,000 years later, delivering the key to the hieroglyphic writing. Ptolemy V married Cleopatra I, daughter of Antiochus III, and left two minor sons: Ptolemy VI and VIII.
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