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Live auction - bgr_626551 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER Tétradrachme

EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER Tétradrachme MS/MS
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Estimate : 8 500 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 08 December 2020 14:28:59
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 311-305 AC.
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 15,66 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Revers magnifique, de haut relief, finement détaillé. Métal légèrement piqué sur la joue d’Alexandre mais buste superbe. La monnaie a conservé une grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés et bleutés

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste cornu et diadèmé d'Alexandre le Grand sous les traits de Zeus-Ammon à droite, coiffé de la dépouille d'éléphant avec l'égide.

Reverse


Reverse description : Athéna Promachos ou Alkidemos marchant à droite, brandissant une javeline de la main droite et tenant un bouclier de la gauche ; dans le champ à droite, un monogramme et un aigle sur un foudre tourné à droite .
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU/ (HDI) - (KE).
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).

Historical background


EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER

(323-283 BC)

King

Ptolemy was a childhood friend of Alexander. After the death of the latter in 323 BC, he received the satrapy of Egypt. Diadoque, he fought for forty years against his colleagues, Lysimachus, Seleucus, Antigone and Demetrius. Ptolemy was the only successor of Alexander to die in his bed.

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