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bgr_575135 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY IV PHILOPATOR Tetrachalque

EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY IV PHILOPATOR Tetrachalque VF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Tetrachalque
Date: c. 221-205 AC.
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 33,78 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré à bords biseautés. Belle tête de Zeus. Frappe brouillée au revers. Patine vert et marron, piquée et bouchée au revers
Catalogue references :

Obverse


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

Reverse


Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes déployées ; dans le champ à gauche, une corne d’abondance ; monogramme entre les pattes de l’aigle.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - BASILEWS/ (SE).
Reverse translation : (de Ptolémée roi).

Commentary


Poids léger. Ce type était précédemment attribué à Ptolémée III. Trou de centrage visible de chaque côté.

Historical background


EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY IV PHILOPATOR

(221-205 BC)

Ptolemy IV (238-205 AC.) is the son of Philippe IV Évergète and Berenice II. He received the title of Philopator (his father's friend) in derision, because he is accused of having poisoned him. During his reign, it was Sosibios who really ruled Egypt. He lost in 219 Seleucia of Pieria, which he had to abandon to Antiochus III the Great, but the victory of Raphia in 217 BC restored the balance and enabled him to recover Coele-Syria from the Seleucid. Ptolemy IV, after a dissolute life, died at age 33, leaving a five-year-old child, Ptolemy V, in the care of his wife/sister Arsinoe III.

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