bgr_401899 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Tétradrachme
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Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 30
Mint name / Town : Sidon, Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,19 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré à l’usure très importante, lisible et identifiable. Patine de collection ancienne
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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 entrouvertes ; dans le champ de chaque côté, les deux premières lettres de l’atelier, la date et un monogramme.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - SWTHROS/ SI - LB/ (MT)
Reverse translation : (Ptolémée le grand/ an 30).
Commentary
Même coin de droit que les exemplaires du trésor de Meydancikkale (Gülnar n° 4718, 4725 à 4727, pl. 143).
Same obverse die as the examples of the Meydancikkale treasure (Gülnar n° 4718, 4725 to 4727, pl. 143)
Same obverse die as the examples of the Meydancikkale treasure (Gülnar n° 4718, 4725 to 4727, pl. 143)
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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