Live auction - bgr_912399 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY V EPIPHANES Tétradrachme
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Live starting : Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 31
Mint name / Town : Alexandria
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,21 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Joli buste de haut relief. Monnaie légèrement nettoyée. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Ptolémée à droite avec l’égide.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes repliées.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - BASILEWS.
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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