v25_0128 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 325.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 330.00 €
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 325.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 330.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 281-280 AC.
Mint name / Town : Alexandria
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,82 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Portrait magnifique. Légèrement décentré au revers sur la légende. Très jolie patine avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
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 entr'ouvertes ; dans le champ à gauche, un bouclier.
Reverse legend : [PTOLEMAIOU] - BASILEWS// R/ AMO
Commentary
Svoronos avait relevé douze exemplaires pour cette variété dans son corpus. Dans le trésor de Meydancikkale, il y avait 35 tétradachmes de ce type, mais en mauvais état avec de nombreuses contremarques et incisions.
Svoronos had noted twelve examples of this variety in his corpus. In the Meydancikkale treasure, there were 35 tetradachms of this type, but in poor condition with numerous countermarks and incisions.
Svoronos had noted twelve examples of this variety in his corpus. In the Meydancikkale treasure, there were 35 tetradachms of this type, but in poor condition with numerous countermarks and incisions.
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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