bgr_1104832 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Octochalque
220.00 €(Approx. 244.20$ | 184.80£)
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Type : Octochalque
Date: c. 260-246 AC.
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 42,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 61,79 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli portrait. Revers agréable. Usure régulière. Patine foncée
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée et cornue de Zeus-Ammon à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Deux aigles debout à gauche sur deux foudres, les ailes fermées.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAI-OU - BASILEWS/ Q (Prolemaiou Basilews)
Reverse translation : (de Ptolémée roi).
Commentary
Trou de centrage des deux côtés.
Centering hole on both sides
Centering hole on both sides
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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