v25_0055 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Statère d'or
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 1 500.00 €
Estimate : 3 000.00 €
Realised price : 1 555.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 1 630.00 €
Starting price : 1 500.00 €
Estimate : 3 000.00 €
Realised price : 1 555.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 1 630.00 €
Type : Statère d'or
Date: c. 325-323 AC.
Mint name / Town : Ionie, Milet
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 8,58 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire frappé sur un petit flan, mais parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec un beau portrait. Le revers est de haut relief avec tous les détails de la Niké bien visibles
Catalogue references :
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 ; sous le cou, un foudre.
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 griffon.
Reverse legend : ALEXAN-DROU
Commentary
Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du musée d’Athènes (M. Thompson, NS. 16, p. 45, n° 19c, pl. 21). Cet exemplaire présente plusieurs particularités : au droit sous le cou, nous avons un foudre, ce qui est très rare sur le monnayage d’Alexandre ; au revers, le nom est placé devant la Niké. L’unique exemplaire signalé provient du musée d’Athènes.
Same obverse die as the example in the Athens Museum (M. Thompson, NS. 16, p. 45, no. 19c, pl. 21). This example has several peculiarities: on the obverse under the neck, we have a thunderbolt, which is very rare on Alexander's coinage; on the reverse, the name is placed in front of the Nike. The only example reported comes from the Athens Museum
Same obverse die as the example in the Athens Museum (M. Thompson, NS. 16, p. 45, no. 19c, pl. 21). This example has several peculiarities: on the obverse under the neck, we have a thunderbolt, which is very rare on Alexander's coinage; on the reverse, the name is placed in front of the Nike. The only example reported comes from the Athens Museum
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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