bgr_287322 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Demi-unité
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Price : 145.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 145.00 €
Type : Demi-unité
Date: c. 336-332 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amphipolis, Macédoine
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 3,53 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, légèrement bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Joli revers inhabituel. Belle patine vert olive foncé légèrement tachée au droit
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Weil de juillet 1985
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d’Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à droite sur un foudre, tournant la tête à gauche ; au-dessus, un croissant vu de dessus.
Reverse legend : ALEXA/NDROU
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).
Commentary
Au revers, l’aigle semble surmonter d’une crête, faisant penser à un coq. Nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente pour ce type. L’exemplaire du British Museum est entré en 1824 et provient de la collection ureton (MP. 28b, pl. CXLIV).
On the reverse, the eagle appears to be surmounted by a crest, reminiscent of a rooster. We have not found any relevant die identity for this type. The British Museum example entered in 1824 and comes from the Ureton collection (MP. 28b, pl. CXLIV)
On the reverse, the eagle appears to be surmounted by a crest, reminiscent of a rooster. We have not found any relevant die identity for this type. The British Museum example entered in 1824 and comes from the Ureton collection (MP. 28b, pl. CXLIV)
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT
(336-323 BC)
Coinage in the name and Alexander III the Great type
Alexander III the Great is the son of Philip II of Macedon and Olympias. He was born in 356 BC, when Philip's horses were triumphing at the Olympic Games. On the death of his father, who was assassinated in 336 BC, he became king of Macedonia at the age of twenty. He immediately crushes the Thebans and razes the city which had revolted. In 334 BC, he went to Asia and, after the victory of Granicus, set out to conquer the Achaemenid Empire, which would take him to Persepolis, then to the gates of India. Back in Babylon, in 325, he married Roxane who gave him a son. Two years later, he died without having completed his work, aged thirty-three..
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