bgr_726061 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 325-310 AC.
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Amphipolis ?
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,05 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Très joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. 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 une massue et un goryte avec son arc ; au milieu entre les lettres, un foudre posé horizontalement.
Reverse legend : B - A, (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.
This type, although bearing the initials of Alexander, is posthumous and may have been struck in the name of Alexander IV, the posthumous son of the conqueror
This type, although bearing the initials of Alexander, is posthumous and may have been struck in the name of Alexander IV, the posthumous son of the conqueror
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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