MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 650.00 €
Realised price : 380.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 423.00 €
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 650.00 €
Realised price : 380.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 423.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 284-283 AC.
Mint name / Town : Alexandria
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,26 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage, parfaitement centré des deux côtés sur un flan large et complet. Portrait de toute beauté avec l’égide à peine visible. Revers de toute beauté où toutes les plumes de l’aigle sont visibles. Petite corrosion sur le mot roi. Magnifique patine de collection ancienne 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 entrouvertes.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU- BASILEWS// R/ PAR
Reverse translation : (Ptolémée roi).
Commentary
Précédemment, ce type était attribué à Ptolémée Ier. C’est l’une des premières émissions pour Ptolémée II. Très belle expression de visage. Minuscule cassure de coin perceptible sur le front. Un exemplaire comparable s’est vendu 510 € avec un maximum à 578 € et cinq offres.
Previously, this type was attributed to Ptolemy I. This is one of the earliest issues for Ptolemy II. Very fine facial expression. Tiny die break visible on the forehead. A comparable example sold for €510 with a high of €578 and five bids.
Previously, this type was attributed to Ptolemy I. This is one of the earliest issues for Ptolemy II. Very fine facial expression. Tiny die break visible on the forehead. A comparable example sold for €510 with a high of €578 and five bids.
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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