bgr_283135 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Tétradrachme
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Price : 650.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 32
Mint name / Town : Joppé Palestine
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,07 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré, en particulier au droit, légèrement éclaté à 6 heures au droit. Très beau portrait particulier de Ptolémée. Joli revers de style fin, un peu court sur la légende. Patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de iNumis 1, n° 83
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé de Ptolémée Ier 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 de chaque côté, les deux premières lettres de l’atelier, la date et deux monogrammes.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMEIOU - SWTHROS// IOP/ AB/ A/ Q
Reverse translation : (Ptolémée le grand/ an 32).
Commentary
Seulement deux exemplaires dans le trésor de Meydancikkale (Gülnar II, p. 181, pl. 129, n°4041-4042, autres coins).
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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