v16_0028 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 16 (2002)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
Realised price : 292.00 €
Number of bids : 6
Maximum bid : 420.00 €
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
Realised price : 292.00 €
Number of bids : 6
Maximum bid : 420.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 325-323 AC.
Mint name / Town : Babylonie, Babylone
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 16,33 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait sur un flan large et complet, la léonté bien visible. Métal légèrement taché. Joli revers. Le mot roi n'est pas complètement visible à l'exergue
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES IX, 30 décembre 2000, n° 44
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 grappe de raisin ; monogramme sous le trône.
Reverse legend : [BASILEWS]/ ALEXANDROU/ M
Commentary
Poids léger. 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.
Light weight. On this example and for the Babylonian mint, the lion's mane is not parallel, but drooping. On the other hand, Zeus's legs are indeed parallel, which indicates that the coin was struck during Alexander's lifetime.
Light weight. On this example and for the Babylonian mint, the lion's mane is not parallel, but drooping. On the other hand, Zeus's legs 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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