bgr_287619 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Tétradrachme
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 680.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 680.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 325-320 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sidé, Pamphylie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 16,90 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés avec le grènetis visible au revers. Beau portrait d’Alexandre de style fin. Revers de style fin où le visage de Zeus est bien visible mais à l’usure superficielle. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Page d’octobre 1982
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore assis à gauche sur un trône avec dossier, les jambes parallèles, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, tenant un aigle posé sur sa main droite et un long sceptre bouleté de la gauche ; une couronne dans le champ à gauche.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU// BASILEWS/ DI/.
Reverse translation : (du roi Alexandre).
Commentary
Malgré la rareté relative du type, nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente.
Despite the relative rarity of the type, we have not noted any relevant die identity
Despite the relative rarity of the type, we have not noted any relevant die identity
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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