bgr_427799 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Tétradrachme
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Price : 950.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 283/282 - 282/281 AC.
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,22 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Magnifique portrait de Potolémée avec une rayure sur la joue et une autre devant le nez. Revers de style fin et de haut relief. Jolie patine grise superficielle avec des reflets dorés
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire a été acquis en décembre 1991 et provient de Conseils Placements
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé de Ptolémée à droite avec l'égide nouée autour du cou.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes entrouvertes.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU- BASILEWS// R/ I
Reverse translation : (Ptolémée roi).
Commentary
Même coin de droit que les exemplaires du trésor de Meydancikkale (Gülnar II, n° 3615-3616, pl. 115). Précédemment, ce type était attribué à Ptolémée Ier. C’est l’une des premières émissions pour Ptolémée II. Très belle expression de visage.
Same obverse die as the examples from the Meydancikkale treasure (Gülnar II, no. 3615-3616, pl. 115). Previously, this type was attributed to Ptolemy I. This is one of the first issues for Ptolemy II. Very beautiful facial expression
Same obverse die as the examples from the Meydancikkale treasure (Gülnar II, no. 3615-3616, pl. 115). Previously, this type was attributed to Ptolemy I. This is one of the first issues for Ptolemy II. Very beautiful facial expression
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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