bgr_905453 - EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY VIII EUERGETES II Tétradrachme
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Price : 450.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 32
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,94 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan idéalement centré présentant un très beau portrait de Ptolémée, bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Ptolémée VIII à droite avec l’égide.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un foudre, les ailes repliées.
Reverse legend : PTOLEMAIOU - BASILEWS/ LLB/ PA
Reverse translation : (Ptolémée roi, an 32).
Commentary
Il s’agit bien de Ptolémée VIII plutôt que de Ptolémée VI (SNG Cop. 299). Ptolémée VIII fait commencer le début de son règne en 170 avant J.-C., date à laquelle il fut associé au pouvoir de son frère Ptolémée VI, avant de se brouiller avec lui six ans plus tard et non pas en 145, date de son accession réelle après la mort de son frère.
It is indeed Ptolemy VIII rather than Ptolemy VI (SNG Cop. 299). Ptolemy VIII began his reign in 170 BC, the date on which he was associated with the power of his brother Ptolemy VI, before falling out with him six years later and not in 145, the date of his real accession after the death of his brother
It is indeed Ptolemy VIII rather than Ptolemy VI (SNG Cop. 299). Ptolemy VIII began his reign in 170 BC, the date on which he was associated with the power of his brother Ptolemy VI, before falling out with him six years later and not in 145, the date of his real accession after the death of his brother
Historical background
EGYPT - LAGID OR PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM - PTOLEMY VIII EUERGETES II
(145-116 BC)
Ptolemy VIII is the son of Ptolemy V Epiphanes (204-180 BC) and Cleopatra I, daughter of Antiochus III of Syria. Child at the death of his father, it was his brother who ascended the throne under the name of Ptolemy VI Philometor (180-145 BC). Under the regency of Cleopatra I until her death in 176 BC, the two brothers had to share the throne between 170 and 164 BC. At odds with his brother, Ptolemy VIII retired to Cyrenaica until on the death of Ptolemy VI in 145 BC Ptolemy VIII got rid of his nephew Ptolemy VII by having him assassinated. He successively married his sister Cleopatra II, widow of his brother, then his niece, Cleopatra III from 142 BC. He reigned for thirty years.
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