v51_0314 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Drachme
MONNAIES 51 (2011)
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
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Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 274/273 - 273/272 AC.
Mint name / Town : Égypte, Alexandrie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,49 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles à l’usure régulière. Beau portrait. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés et bleutés acier
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Münz Zentrum 67, 7 novembre 1989, n° 1832
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé de Ptolémée à droite avec l'égide nouée autour du cou ; grènetis circulaire perlé.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes entrouvertes ; dans le champ à gauche, un bouclier ; grènetis circulaire perlé.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - BASILEXS// S/ I
Reverse translation : (de Ptolémée roi).
Commentary
Contremarque ou incision au revers sur l’aile de l’aigle (gamma). Nous avons un seul exemplaire dans l’ouvrage de Svoronos en 1904 (Sv. 575).
Countermark or incision on the reverse of the eagle's wing (gamma). We have a single example in the work of Svoronos in 1904 (Sv. 575)
Countermark or incision on the reverse of the eagle's wing (gamma). We have a single example in the work of Svoronos in 1904 (Sv. 575)
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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