bgr_463816 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Hemichalque

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Price : 150.00 €

Type : Hemichalque

Date: c. 269-246 AC.

Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte

Metal : copper

Diameter : 17,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 4,61 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement identifiable. Jolie patine verte

Catalogue references :

Sv.351 - Cop.100 - GC.-

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Buste voilé, diadémé et drapé d'Arsinoé II à droite.

Reverse

Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche, les ailes déployées sur un foudre.

Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU

Reverse translation : (de Ptolémée).

Commentary

Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous le proposons à la vente.
This type seems rarer than general works suggest. This is the first time we are offering it for sale.

Historical background

EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS

(285-246 BC)

Coinage in the name of Arsinoe II

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 where Alexander was buried. It was one of the Seven Wonders of the World along with the Museum and Library of Alexandria.

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