v51_0324 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY VIII EUERGETES II Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 51 (2011)
Starting price : 420.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 607.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 650.00 €
Starting price : 420.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 607.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 650.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 31
Mint name / Town : Chypre, Citium
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,00 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un flan large et ovale. Portrait de toute beauté. Beau revers, de haut relief bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Münz Zentrum d’avril 1990
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Ptolémée VIII à droite avec l’égide nouée sous le cou ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes repliées ; date dans le champ à gauche ; deux lettres de l’atelier dans le champ à droite ; grènetis circulaire perlé.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - BASILEWS/ LLA/ KI
Reverse translation : (de Ptolémée roi).
Commentary
Ptolémée VIII fait commencer le début de son règne en 170 avant J.-C., date à laquelle il fut associé au pouvoir de son frère Ptolémée VI, avant de se brouiller avec lui six ans plus tard et non pas en 145, date de son accession réelle après la mort de son frère. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du Danish National Museum (SNG. Cop. n° 596, pl. XX) et que l’exemplaire du musée de Francfort sur le Main (MP. 272, p. 136-137).
Ptolemy VIII dates the beginning of his reign to 170 BC, the date at which he was associated with the power of his brother Ptolemy VI, before falling out with him six years later, and not in 145, the date of his actual accession after his brother's death. Same obverse die as the copy in the Danish National Museum (SNG. Cop. no. 596, pl. XX) and the copy in the Frankfurt am Main museum (MP. 272, pp. 136-137)
Ptolemy VIII dates the beginning of his reign to 170 BC, the date at which he was associated with the power of his brother Ptolemy VI, before falling out with him six years later, and not in 145, the date of his actual accession after his brother's death. Same obverse die as the copy in the Danish National Museum (SNG. Cop. no. 596, pl. XX) and the copy in the Frankfurt am Main museum (MP. 272, pp. 136-137)
Historical background
EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY VIII EUERGETES II
(145-116 BC)
Ptolemy VIII is the son of Ptolemy V Epiphanes (204-180 BC) and Cleopatra I, daughter of Antiochus III of Syria. Child at the death of his father, it was his brother who ascended the throne under the name of Ptolemy VI Philometor (180-145 BC). Under the regency of Cleopatra I until her death in 176 BC, the two brothers had to share the throne between 170 and 164 BC. At odds with his brother, Ptolemy VIII retired to Cyrenaica until on the death of Ptolemy VI in 145 BC Ptolemy VIII got rid of his nephew Ptolemy VII by having him assassinated. He successively married his sister Cleopatra II, widow of his brother, then his niece, Cleopatra III from 142 BC. He reigned for thirty years.
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