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v49_0345 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Dichalque, (MB, Æ 27)

EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Dichalque, (MB, Æ 27) AU/AU
AU/AU
MONNAIES 49 (2011)
Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Dichalque, (MB, Æ 27)
Date: c. 274-261 AC.
Mint name / Town : Égypte, Alexandrie
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 19,58 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait particulier de Zeus. Revers de style fin avec une usure superficielle sur le plumage de l’aigle. Magnifique patine vert olive clair
Catalogue references :
Laffaille610 var - BMC.27  - Cop.116  - GC.7779 var - MP.56  - Sv.610
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock du Crédit de la Bourse (1995)

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée et barbue de Zeus (Jupiter) à droite ; grènetis circulaire.

Reverse

Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes déployées ; dans le champ à gauche, un bouclier et un monogramme.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - BASILEWS.
Reverse translation : (Ptolémée roi).

Commentary

Sur cet exemplaire, nous n’avons aucun monogramme, seulement le bouclier. Le style du portrait est particulier.

Historical background

EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS

(285-246 BC)

Ptolemy II succeeded his father in 283 BC but he was already associated with business before that date. Married in 288 BC to Arsinoe, the daughter of Lysimachus, he married his second wife in 276 BC his sister, Arsinoe II. Daughter of Ptolemy I and Berenice, she had married successively Lysimachus, then Ptolemy Ceraunos, her half-brother, and was deified, identified with the goddess Hathor, when she died in 271 BC. Ptolemy issued an important coinage restitution to recall his memory. During the last twenty-five years of his life, Ptolemy II completed the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

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