380.00 €(Approx. 448.40$ | 326.80£)
Quantity
Add to your cart
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 275/274 - 266/265 AC.
Mint name / Town : Citium, Chypre
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,89 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli buste. Aigle à l’usure régulière. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
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// ST/ KI
Reverse translation : (Ptolémée roi).
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.
Report a mistake
Print the page
Share my selection
Ask a question
Consign / sellRelated articles
Full data
Your Recently Viewed Items
50 Centimes GUINEA 1917 P.01b XF+
350.00 €
500 Escudos CAPE VERDE 2014 P.72 UNC
12.00 €
EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY II PHILADELPHUS Chalque VF
24.00 €
JULIA MAESA Denier AU
85.00 €
VICTORINUS Antoninien XF
130.00 €
LIECHTENSTEIN - PRINCIPALITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN - FRANCIS JOSEPH II 25 franken 196
535.00 €
cgbfr.com numismatists
