bgr_407230 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Unité
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Price : 250.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 325- 310AC.
Mint name / Town : Amphipolis, Macédoine
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 6,01 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais bien centré des deux côtés. Très belle tête d’Héraklès. Joli revers bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine vert 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 posée horizontalement ; dans le champ à gauche, une étoile à huit rais.
Reverse legend : B - A/ (TE), (Basilews Alexandrou)
Reverse translation : (du roi Alexandre).
Commentary
Ce type bien que portant les initiales d’Alexandre est posthume et peut avoir été frappé au nom d’Alexandre IV, le fils posthume du conquérant. Cette variété avec une étoile dans le champ à gauche ne semble pas recensé dans l’ouvrage de référence de Martin Price.
This type, although bearing Alexander's initials, is posthumous and may have been struck in the name of Alexander IV, the conqueror's posthumous son. This variety with a star in the left field does not appear to be recorded in Martin Price's reference work.
This type, although bearing Alexander's initials, is posthumous and may have been struck in the name of Alexander IV, the conqueror's posthumous son. This variety with a star in the left field does not appear to be recorded in Martin Price's reference work.
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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