v47_0058 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 47 (2011)
Starting price : 550.00 €
Estimate : 850.00 €
Realised price : 1 354.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 1 450.00 €
Starting price : 550.00 €
Estimate : 850.00 €
Realised price : 1 354.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 1 450.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 333-327 AC
Mint name / Town : Cilicie, Tarse
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 17,14 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de haut relief avec la léonté bien visible. Très jolie revers de style fin. Très belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Armand Trampitsch, Vinchon 13-15 novembre 1986, n° 132 (457€) et de la collection A. A. S.
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore, les jambes parallèles, assis à gauche sur un siège sans dossier, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, tenant un aigle posé sur sa main droite et un long sceptre lotiforme bouleté de la gauche.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).
Commentary
Nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente pour ce type qui est l’un des plus anciens du monnayage de Tarse. Une petite contremarque sur la joue d’Héraklès (monogramme, KE). Ce type de contremarque n’est pas signalé par M. J. Price dans son corpus.
We have not found any relevant die identity for this type, which is one of the oldest in the Tarsus coinage. A small countermark on the cheek of Herakles (monogram, KE). This type of countermark is not reported by MJ Price in his corpus
We have not found any relevant die identity for this type, which is one of the oldest in the Tarsus coinage. A small countermark on the cheek of Herakles (monogram, KE). This type of countermark is not reported by MJ Price in his corpus
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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