v25_0060 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Unité de bronze, (MB, Æ 20)
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 272.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 440.00 €
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 272.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 440.00 €
Type : Unité de bronze, (MB, Æ 20)
Date: c. 336-323 AC.
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Amphipolis
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 6,25 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et complet des deux côtés. Portrait magnifique. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Très jolie patine vert olive foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d’Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Légende entre une massue et un goryte avec son arc ; au-dessous, un E.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU
Commentary
Au revers, notre combinaison massue, nom et goryte vu de dessus semble beaucoup moins courante que d’autres arrangements. Il y a plusieurs types de gorytes (carquois). La représentation de notre revers ne semble pas avoir été réutilisée et se trouve être l’une des plus rares du monnayage de bronze.
On the reverse, our combination of club, name, and goryte seen from above appears to be much less common than other arrangements. There are several types of gorytes (quivers). The representation on our reverse does not appear to have been reused and happens to be one of the rarest in bronze coinage.
On the reverse, our combination of club, name, and goryte seen from above appears to be much less common than other arrangements. There are several types of gorytes (quivers). The representation on our reverse does not appear to have been reused and happens to be one of the rarest in bronze coinage.
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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