bgr_736246 - KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - ALEXANDER IV Demi-unité
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Type : Demi-unité
Date: c. 323-315 AC.
Mint name / Town : Salamine, Chypre
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,61 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Très beau revers, bien venu à la frappe. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de gorgone placée au centre d'un bouclier macédonien.
Reverse
Reverse description : Casque macédonien ; dans le champ à gauche, un caducée.
Reverse legend : B-A
Commentary
Dans la nouvelle édition de l’ouvrage d’O. Hoover (HGCS 3/1, n° 958) ce type est attribué à Alexandre IV, le fils posthume d’Alexandre le Grand et de Roxane. Ce type particulier attribué à Salamine de Chypre aurait été frappé sous l’autorité de Nicocréon, dernier roi de Salamine (331-311 avant J.-C..
In the new edition of the work of O. Hoover (HGCS 3/1, no. 958) this type is attributed to Alexander IV, the posthumous son of Alexander the Great and Roxana. This particular type attributed to Salamis of Cyprus would have been minted under the authority of Nicocreon, last king of Salamis (331-311 BC).
In the new edition of the work of O. Hoover (HGCS 3/1, no. 958) this type is attributed to Alexander IV, the posthumous son of Alexander the Great and Roxana. This particular type attributed to Salamis of Cyprus would have been minted under the authority of Nicocreon, last king of Salamis (331-311 BC).
Historical background
KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - ALEXANDER IV
(323-310/309 BC)
Alexandre is the son of Alexandre III and Roxane. On the death of his father, the Macedonian nobles preferred his uncle, half-brother of Alexander, Philippe Arrhidée, however simple-minded. After the assassination of the latter, the son of Alexandre and his mother will be victims of the appetites of the epigones who want to maintain the fiction of the Empire while wanting to seize the reality of power. Refugees with Cassandre, Roxane and Alexandre IV were finally assassinated in 310-309 BC..
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