bgr_627104 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY VIII EUERGETES II Drachme
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Type : Drachme
Date: c. 145-116 AC.
Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain, Chypre
Metal : copper
Diameter : 33,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 20,64 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan à bords biseautés. Belle tête de Zeus Ammon. Frappe un peu molle au revers sur la légende avec un type inhabituel. Jolie patine vert foncé et sable
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus-Ammon à droite, cornue.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à droite, les ailes déployées ; lettre dans le champ à droite.
Reverse legend : EUERGETOU BASILEWS PTOLEMAIOU/ K.
Reverse translation : (l’Évergète Ptolémée roi).
Commentary
Épigraphie stylisée. Trou de centrage des deux côtés. Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente.
Historical background
EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY VIII EUERGETES II
(145-116 BC)
Ptolemy VIII is the son of Ptolemy V Epiphanes (204-180 BC) and Cleopatra I, daughter of Antiochus III of Syria. Child at the death of his father, it was his brother who ascended the throne under the name of Ptolemy VI Philometor (180-145 BC). Under the regency of Cleopatra I until her death in 176 BC, the two brothers had to share the throne between 170 and 164 BC. At odds with his brother, Ptolemy VIII retired to Cyrenaica until on the death of Ptolemy VI in 145 BC Ptolemy VIII got rid of his nephew Ptolemy VII by having him assassinated. He successively married his sister Cleopatra II, widow of his brother, then his niece, Cleopatra III from 142 BC. He reigned for thirty years.
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