v41_0124 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Unité de bronze, (MB, Æ 20)
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Unité de bronze, (MB, Æ 20)
Date: c. 336-323 AC.
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Amphipolis ?
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 5,91 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré au revers. Très beau portrait, parfaitement centré sur un flan décalé. Joli revers. Belle 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 un goryte avec son arc et une massue ; au-dessus, un delta ; au-dessous, une grappe de raisin.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDR.U/ D
Commentary
Au revers, notre combinaison goryte, nom et massue, vu de dessus semble beaucoup moins courante que d’autres arrangements. Dans le trésor de Drama, il n’y avait qu’un seul exemplaire de ce type.
On the reverse, our Goryte combination, name and club, seen from above, seems much less common than other arrangements. In the Drama hoard, there was only one example of this type.
On the reverse, our Goryte combination, name and club, seen from above, seems much less common than other arrangements. In the Drama hoard, there was only one example of this type.
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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