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v25_0057 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 470.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 750.00 €
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 470.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 750.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 325-323 AC.
Mint name / Town : Babylonie, Babylone
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 17,25 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle ayant conservé son brillant de frappe. Très légèrement décentré au revers. Jolie patine superficielle avec des reflets mordorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore, les jambes parallèles, mais la jambe gauche fléchie, assis à gauche sur un siège avec dossier, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, tenant un aigle posé sur sa main droite et un long sceptre bouleté de la gauche ; les pieds reposent sur un marchepied ; dans le champ à gauche une astragale ; monogramme sous le trône.
Reverse legend : [A]LEXANDROU/ M
Commentary
Même coin de droit que l‘exemplaire du British Museum (MP. 3610, pl. 103, provenant du trésor de Demanhur). Sur cet exemplaire et pour l’atelier de Babylone, la crinière de la léonté (dépouille de lion) n’est pas parallèle, mais tombante. En revanche, les jambes du Zeus sont bien parallèles ce qui indique que la pièce a été frappée du vivant d’Alexandre.
Same obverse die as the British Museum example (MP. 3610, pl. 103, from the Demanhur hoard). On this example and for the Babylonian mint, the lion's mane (lion's skin) is not parallel, but drooping. On the other hand, the legs of Zeus are indeed parallel, which indicates that the coin was struck during Alexander's lifetime.
Same obverse die as the British Museum example (MP. 3610, pl. 103, from the Demanhur hoard). On this example and for the Babylonian mint, the lion's mane (lion's skin) is not parallel, but drooping. On the other hand, the legs of Zeus are indeed parallel, which indicates that the coin was struck during Alexander's lifetime.
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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