Live auction - bgr_1159601 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Statère d'or
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Live starting : Type : Statère d'or
Date: c. 332-323 AC.
Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain
Metal : gold
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,59 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Portrait d’Athéna de toute beauté ainsi qu’un revers fantastique, finement détaillé. Patine de collection
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée d'Athéna à droite, coiffée du casque corinthien à aigrette, orné d'un serpent ; les cheveux tombant sur la nuque en mèches mêlées.
Reverse
Reverse description : Niké debout à gauche, les ailes déployées, tenant de la main droite une couronne et de la gauche la stylis ; dans le champ à gauche, un bucrane (les cornes orientées en bas et en haut).
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).
Commentary
La série « Price 2539 » comprend des statères de Sardes sur lesquels figure un bucrane dans le champ gauche ; toutefois, tous les exemplaires publiés de cette série présentent des bucranes dont les deux cornes sont tournées vers le haut et affichent un style général différent de celui du présent exemplaire, ce qui laisse supposer que chaque série a été frappée dans des ateliers de frappe différents.
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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