Live auction - bgr_646571 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 800 € |
| Price : | 450 € |
| Maximum bid : | 450 € |
| End of the sale : | 09 March 2021 14:11:19 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 324-323 AC.
Mint name / Town : Babylone, Babylonie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 17,20 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire, centré des deux côtés. Joli portrait d’Héraklès, bien venu à la frappe. Revers agréable. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés au revers
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, 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 massue ; monogramme sous le trône.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU/ (IFLI)/ M
Commentary
Les jambes du Zeus sont bien parallèles ce qui indique que la pièce a été frappée du vivant d’Alexandre.
The legs of Zeus are parallel, which indicates that the coin was minted during Alexander's lifetime.
The legs of Zeus are parallel, which indicates that the coin was minted 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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