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Live auction - bpv_555720 - CLEOPATRA VII and MARK ANTONY Tétradrachme syro-phénicien

CLEOPATRA VII and MARK ANTONY Tétradrachme syro-phénicien VF
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Estimate : 900 €
Price : 720 €
Maximum bid : 720 €
End of the sale : 03 December 2019 14:52:06
bidders : 3 bidders
Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 18-17 AC.
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 11,76 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré à l’usure importante qui reste toutefois bien identifiable au niveau des portraits de Cléopâtre et Marc Antoine. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire est le 027_023 de la base TSP et provient de la vente Hans M. F Shulman des 26-29 Avril 1972 n° 646 puis après de la vente CNG 149 de 2006, n° 276

Obverse


Obverse description : Buste de Cléopâtre vue de trois quart de face, portant une veste et un triple collier, l’un de grosses perles pendant, un autre ras du cou, peut-être de perles, un troisième bijou en forme de croissant de lune entre les deux. La coiffure, très complexe, intègre des nattes à ras, des perles en fin de nattes sur le devant, elles sont bien distinctes sur le front, un chignon bas et un diadème. Si l’on en juge par la position du collier de grosses perles, dont la boucle finale est bien juxtaposée entre les seins, ceux-ci étaient bien faits pour la main d’un honnête homme.
Obverse legend : BASILISSA K[LEOPATRA QEA NEwTERA].
Obverse translation : Reine Cléopâtre, nouvelle divinité.

Reverse


Reverse description : Tête nue à droite de Marc-Antoine, les cheveux courts.
Reverse legend : [ANTwNIOS AUTOK]RATvR TRITON TRIvN ANDRvN.
Reverse translation : Antoine Imperator pour la troisième fois, triumvir.

Commentary


Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, cent huit exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés et il faut noter que, sur ce total, quinze sont en musées ou collections publiques (Glasgow, British Museum (trois exemplaires), Paris (quatre exemplaires), ANS (trois exemplaires), Copenhague, Fitzwilliam, Munich et Yale.

Historical background


CLEOPATRA VII and MARK ANTONY

(39-30 BC)

Cleopatra (69-30 AC. ) is the daughter of Ptolemy XII and Cleopatra VI. She succeeded her father in 51 BC.. -VS. together with her brother and husband Ptolemy XIII (51-47 AC. ). Pompey, after the defeat of Pharsalus (48 AC. ), tries to find refuge in Egypt, but is murdered at the instigation of Ptolemy XIII. Caesar arrives in Alexandria, takes the side of Cleopatra against her brother (Alexandrian War), falls under the spell of the Queen of Egypt and has a son, Caesarion, future Ptolemy XV. Cleopatra follows the conqueror to Rome, but returns to Egypt after his death in 44 BC. -VS. She then subjugates Marc Antoine, Caesar's lieutenant and partner of Octave and Lépide in the second triumvirate. She has several children, including Ptolemy Philadelphus. The war becomes inevitable between Rome and Egypt from the proclamation of the "donation of Alexandria", where Marc Antoine projects to restore the lagide power in the East. Antony and Cleopatra are defeated at Actium in 31 BC. -VS. Antoine commits suicide the following year and Cleopatra, in order not to appear in Octave's triumph, prefers to kill herself with an asp.. Caesarion is put to death by Octavian. Seen from the East, the couple Marc Antoine and Cléopâtre is mythical, just like the one she forms with César.

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