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重量: 35,59グラム
直径:33ミリ
鋳造年:紀元前265年〜241年(プトレマイオス2世在位中)
鋳造地: Alexandria
表面: アルシノエ2世
裏面: 豊穣の角「Cornupia」APΣINOHΣ-ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOY
特記:ダブル「オメガ」マーク!
特記その2: Ex. J.KERN Collection
特記その3: 鋳造時期は限りなく「紀元前249年〜245年」の間です。

NGC鑑定番号: 2400939-014
NGC鑑定番結果: CH XF Star !
専門書: CPE 366. Svoronos 959. Troxell, Museum Notes 28 (1983)


PTOLEMAIC EGYPT. Arsinöe II Philadelphus (277-270/268 BC). AR decadrachm (33mm, 35.59 gm, 12h). NGC Choice XF★ 5/5 - 4/5, light graffito. Posthumous issue of Alexandria under Ptolemy II, ca. 249/8-246/5 BC. Veiled head of the deified Arsinöe right, wearing stephane and horn of Ammon, lotus-tipped scepter in background, it's tip visible above her head; ΩΩ in left field, dotted border / APΣINOHΣ-ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOY, double cornucopia bound with fillet, containing pyramidal cakes, pomegranates and other fruits, grape cluster hanging from the rim of each horn; dotted border. CPE 366. Svoronos 959. Troxell, Museum Notes 28 (1983), p. 45, 55g. Very rare, particularly so with these mintmarks. Light graffito N in reverse left field, otherwise deeply struck and beautifully toned.



The ostentatious display of Egypt's wealth under the Ptolemies was not confined to gold coinage. Ptolemy I and his immediate successors also struck silver coins in larger denominations than any contemporary kingdom or city-state. Along with the vast outpouring of gold in the name of his sister-wife Arsinöe II, Ptolemy II also struck silver decadrachms displaying her veiled portrait backed with the cornucopia, symbolizing Egypt's agricultural abundance. Having died in about 270 BC, Arsinöe is shown as a goddess, with the tip of a ram's horn (symbolic of the god Ammon) poking out from beneath her veil, and the lotus-tipped scepter of the goddess Isis just visible above her head.