bgr_991197 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY V EPIPHANES Obole
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Price : 175.00 €
Type : Obole
Date: c. 204-180 AC.
Mint name / Town : Égypte, Alexandrie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,16 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli buste. Fine usure régulière. Patine marron
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste cornu et diadèmé d'Alexandre le Grand sous les traits de Zeus-Ammon à droite, coiffé de la dépouille d'éléphant avec l'égide.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes déployées ; entre les serres, un monogramme.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - BASILEWS
Reverse translation : (Ptolémée roi).
Historical background
EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY V EPIPHANES
(204-180 BC)
Ptolemy V, king at 5, died at 29. He was crowned Pharaoh in Memphis in 197 BC. This event was immortalized by the Rosetta stone that Champollion was to transcribe 2,000 years later, delivering the key to the hieroglyphic writing. Ptolemy V married Cleopatra I, daughter of Antiochus III, and left two minor sons: Ptolemy VI and VIII.
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