Live auction - bgr_674017 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Octodrachme d’or (mnaieon)

EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Octodrachme d’or (mnaieon) AU

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Estimate :	9 000 €
Price :	9 100 €
Maximum bid :	9 100 €
End of the sale :	07 September 2021 14:51:46
bidders :	5 bidders

Type : Octodrachme d’or (mnaieon)

Date: c. 260 AC.

Mint name / Town : Alexandria

Metal : gold

Diameter : 28 mm

Orientation dies : 11 h.

Weight : 27,71 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Bel exemplaire, centré des deux côtés. Très joli revers, détaillé. Patine de collection

Catalogue references :

Sv.475 - Cop.322 - GC.7768 - MP.- - BMC.10

Predigree :

Exemplaire provenant de la vente Albuquerque VSO 71, n° 2 (15 décembre 1996) et de la collection Aymé Cornu

Obverse

Obverse legend : K DERRIÈRE LA TÊTE.

Obverse description : Buste diadémé et voilé d’Arsinoé II à droite, une fleur de lotus à la pointe de la tête.

Reverse

Reverse description : Double corne d’abondance, remplie de fruits, une grappe de raisin suspendue de chaque côté, les bandelettes flottant au vent.

Reverse legend : ARSINOHS - FILADELFOU.

Reverse translation : (d’Arsinoé Philadelphe).

Commentary

Ce type est bien frappé sous le règne de Ptolémée II et n’est pas posthume. Petit kappa derrière la tête. Exemplaire de très beau style.

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.