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E-auction 84-42486 - bgr_334034 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Chalque

EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Chalque VF
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Estimate : 145 €
Price : 38 €
Maximum bid : 40 €
End of the sale : 24 November 2014 15:03:30
bidders : 8 bidders
Type : Chalque
Date: c. 285-277 AC.
Mint name / Town : Cyrène, Cyrénaïque
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 8,81 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait particulier de Ptolémée Ier. Représentation inhabituelle au revers avec un très beau portrait de la Libye. Patine verte légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste de Ptolémée Ier avec l’égide nouée sur le cou ; grènetis circulaire.

Reverse


Reverse description : La Libye diadémée et drapée à droite coiffé de la tainia, les cheveux longs tombant en grandes mèches sur le cou ; une petite double corne d’abondance (cornucopiae) à la pointe du cou.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS - PTOLEMAIOU.
Reverse translation : (roi Ptolémée).

Commentary


Ce type est parfois daté plus tardivement entre 221 et 140 avant J.-C. entre les règnes de Ptolémée IV Philopator et celui de Ptolémée VIII Évergète II. Trou de centrage visible au revers seulement.

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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