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bgr_374428 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Tétradrachme

EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Tétradrachme XF/AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 750.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 36
Mint name / Town : Joppé, Palestine
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,99 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Ptolémée à l’usure régulière. Très joli revers bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés. Conserve au revers son brillant de frappe
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Abdo Ayoub

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé de Ptolémée Ier à droite avec l'égide nouée autour du cou.

Reverse


Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes entr'ouvertes ; dans le champ de chaque côté, les deux premières lettres de l’atelier, la date et deux monogrammes.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - SWTHROS// IOP// GA/ LS/ Q.

Commentary


Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de Meydancikkale (Gülnar n° 4047, pl. 126). Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.

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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