bgr_427992 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER Dichalque

EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER Dichalque AU

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Price : 450.00 €

Type : Dichalque

Date: c. 300-283 AC.

Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte

Metal : copper

Diameter : 27,5 mm

Orientation dies : 1 h.

Weight : 14,51 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan ovale parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Très joli droit. Magnifique revers de style fin bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine marron

Catalogue references :

Laffaille- - Cop.86 var. - MP.- - BMC. - GC.7763 var. - SNG. Bar- - Sv.299 var

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite.

Reverse

Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes dépoloyées ; dans le champ à gauche, deux monogrammes.

Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - BASILEWS/ (AG)/ (PA).

Reverse translation : (Ptolémée).

Commentary

C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente qui semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.

Historical background

EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER

(323-283 BC)

King

Ptolemy was a childhood friend of Alexander. After the death of the latter in 323 BC, he received the satrapy of Egypt. Diadoque, he fought for forty years against his colleagues, Lysimachus, Seleucus, Antigone and Demetrius. Ptolemy was the only successor of Alexander to die in his bed.

EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER Tétradrachme AU/XF

380.00 €

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EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER Tétradrachme AU/XF

280.00 €

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EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER Tétradrachme AU/AU

650.00 €

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EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER Hemichalque VF/XF

75.00 €

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EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER Tétradrachme AU

450.00 €

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EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER Tétradrachme AU

800.00 €

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bgr_427992 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER Dichalque

Obverse

Reverse

Commentary

Historical background

EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER

(323-283 BC)

King

Ptolemy was a childhood friend of Alexander. After the death of the latter in 323 BC, he received the satrapy of Egypt. Diadoque, he fought for forty years against his colleagues, Lysimachus, Seleucus, Antigone and Demetrius. Ptolemy was the only successor of Alexander to die in his bed.

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