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Auction X 13 January 2013
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Ptolemaic Kingdom. Ptolemy II. 285-246 BC. Octadrachm, 27.67g. (12h). AlexandriaObv: ΑΔΕΛΦΩΝ Jugate busts right of Ptolemy II, diademed and wearing chalmys, and Arsinoe II, diademed and veiled; behind Celtic shield; dotted border. Rx: ΘΕΩΝ Jugate busts right of Ptolemy I, wearing diadem and aegis, and Berenice I, diademed and veiled; dotted border. SNG Copenhagen 132. Svoronos 603. Dewing Coll. 2752. Good VF.
Purchased by a private collector from Tom Cederlind.
A dynastic issue of paramount importance: Ptolemy II celebrates both the marriage to his own sister, Arsinoe II, and the divination of his parents, thereby also marking a divine status of the sibling rulers, and claiming all the rights of the earlier pharaohs of Egypt.
Purchased by a private collector from Tom Cederlind.
A dynastic issue of paramount importance: Ptolemy II celebrates both the marriage to his own sister, Arsinoe II, and the divination of his parents, thereby also marking a divine status of the sibling rulers, and claiming all the rights of the earlier pharaohs of Egypt.