v09_0137 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY I SOTER Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 114.34 €
Estimate : 182.94 €
Realised price : 184.16 €
Starting price : 114.34 €
Estimate : 182.94 €
Realised price : 184.16 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 289-288 AC.
Mint name / Town : Alexandria
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,03 g.
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé à droite avec l'égide nouée autour du cou.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes entr'ouvertes ; dans le champ à gauche, deux monogrammes.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - BASILEWS/ R/ AUR
Commentary
Deux contremarques de changeur au droit et un graffiti au revers. Même coins que l'exemplaire du trésor de Meydancikkale (n° 3177).
Two money changer's countermarks on the obverse and graffiti on the reverse. Same dies as the copy from the Meydancikkale treasure (no. 3177)
Two money changer's countermarks on the obverse and graffiti on the reverse. Same dies as the copy from the Meydancikkale treasure (no. 3177)
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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