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bgr_407426 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Octochalque

EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Octochalque VF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 250.00 €
Type : Octochalque
Date: c. 260-246 AC.
Mint name / Town : Phénicie, Tyr
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 42 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 66,95 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et épais à bords biseautés à l’usure importante, lisible et identifiable. Frappe un peu molle des deux côtés. Patine marron foncé
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Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée et cornue de Zeus-Ammon à droite.

Reverse


Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes ouvertes ; dans le champ à gauche, une massue posée vertcilement.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - BASILEWS/ DI (Prolemaiou Basilews).
Reverse translation : (de Ptolémée roi).

Commentary


Trou de centrage des deux côtés. Exemplaire de poids léger pour ce type. Au revers les lettres (DI) entre les pattes de l’aigle se rencontrent pour Ptolémée IV à l’atelier d’Alexandrie.

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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