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v51_0080 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Drachme

MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Drachme AU
MONNAIES 51 (2011)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
Realised price : 830.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 320.00 €
Type : Drachme
Date: 336-331 AC.
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Amphipolis
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 4,23 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, légèrement bombé, bien centré des deux côtés, un peu court sur la légende de revers. Très beau portrait d’Héraklès, bien venu à la frappe. Joli revers de style fin, à l’usure superficielle. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection BCD et de MONNAIES I, 1996, n° 8

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d'Héraklès à droite, coiffé de la léonté, nouée sous le cou.

Reverse


Reverse description : Aigle debout à droite sur un foudre, tournant la tête à gauche ; dans le champ à droite, une proue de navire tournée à droite.
Reverse legend : ALEXAN/DROU.
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).

Commentary


Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection MacClean Cambridge (n° 3507 = H. Troxell, p. 31, n° 148, pl. 7). Semble de même coin de revers que l’exemplaire du Danish National Museum (Cop. n° 692, pl. 16).

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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