bgr_551577 - KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - ALEXANDER IV Tétradrachme
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Price : 175.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 323-311 AC.
Mint name / Town : atelier incertain, Grèce ?
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 17,00 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, bien centré. Revers agréable. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore, légèrement penché en avant, les jambes croisées, assis à gauche sur un siège avec dossier, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, tenant un aigle posé sur sa main droite et un long sceptre bouleté de la gauche.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU
Commentary
Nous attribuons ce type monétaire à Alexandre IV, fils du conquérant car ce tétradrachme ne porte aucune marque monétaire au revers. Il est néanmoins posthume car les jambes de Zeus sont croisées.
We attribute this coin type to Alexander IV, son of the conqueror, because this tetradrachm bears no coin mark on the reverse. It is nevertheless posthumous because Zeus's legs are crossed.
We attribute this coin type to Alexander IV, son of the conqueror, because this tetradrachm bears no coin mark on the reverse. It is nevertheless posthumous because Zeus's legs are crossed.
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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