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v18_0145 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS tétradrachme

EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS tétradrachme XF
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 1 000.00 €
Estimate : 2 000.00 €
Realised price : 1 793.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 2 668.00 €
Type : tétradrachme
Date: an 2
Mint name / Town : Alexandria
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,20 g.
Rarity : R3
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait avec une jolie patine de collection ancienne. Usure régulière. Exemplaire bien centré
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient d’une vieille collection des années 30

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste voilé, diadémé et drapé d'Arsinoé II à droite.
Obverse legend : B.

Reverse


Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre ; monogramme entre les pattes de l’aigle.
Reverse legend : ARSINOHS - FILADELFOU/ C.

Commentary


Même coin de droit que l'exemplaire illustré dans l'article d'H. Troxell, provenant des collections Lockett (n° 3408) et Bement (AC. 7, 23 juin 1924, n° 1831) et des ventes Egger 40, 2 mai 1912, n° 1228 et Feuardent, 9 mai 1910, n° 678 (pl. 4, n° 6) et que celui de la collection du Wheaton College (n° 293).

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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