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Live auction - bgr_809733 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER Tétradrachme

EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER Tétradrachme MS/AU
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Estimate : 900 €
Price : 1 750 €
Maximum bid : 1 750 €
End of the sale : 06 June 2023 14:33:52
bidders : 15 bidders
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 290-289 AC.
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : silver
Diameter : 28,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,79 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Joli buste, finement détaillé. Très bel aigle au revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la Maison Platt (18/04/1991) et de la collection André Ronde

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé de Ptolémée Ier Soter à droite avec l'égide nouée autour du cou.

Reverse


Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes entrouvertes ; dans le champ à gauche, deux monogrammes.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - BASILEWS/ (PU).

Commentary


Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. Ce type se rencontre dans plusieurs trésors égyptiens ou levantins. Outre le tétradrachme, nous avons aussi l’octodrachme en argent, le trychryson et le tetarte en or.

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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