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Live auction - bgr_394196 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Dichalque

EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Dichalque AU
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Estimate : 750 €
Price : 450 €
Maximum bid : 460 €
End of the sale : 28 June 2016 14:54:51
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Dichalque
Date: c. 274-261 AC.
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 17,46 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Belle tête de Zeus. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Très belle patine noire
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Burgan du 15 octobre 2001 et de la collection François Charrin

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite.

Reverse


Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes déployées ; dans le champ à gauche, un bouclier et une lettre.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - BASILEWS/ N.

Commentary


Portrait de qualité tout à fait exceptionnelle pour ce type de bronze, “hellénistique”.

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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