bgr_325588 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ANTIGONUS MONOPHTALMUS Drachme
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 310-301 AC.
Mint name / Town : Magnésie du Méandre, Ionie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,00 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête d’Héraklès. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Hubert Lanz (Münich)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore assis à gauche, les jambes croisées, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, tenant un aigle posé sur sa main droite et un long sceptre bouleté de la gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, une tête de bélier ; monogramme sous le trône.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU// (AR)
Commentary
Poids léger. Si la tête de bélier est bien attestée pour Magnésie du Méandre, en revanche, nous n’avons pas ce monogramme sous le trône. Semble inédit et non recensé.
Lightweight. While the ram's head is well attested for Magnesia of the Meander, on the other hand, we do not have this monogram under the throne. Seems unpublished and unrecorded
Lightweight. While the ram's head is well attested for Magnesia of the Meander, on the other hand, we do not have this monogram under the throne. Seems unpublished and unrecorded
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ANTIGONUS MONOPHTALMUS
(323-301 BC)
Coinage in the name of Alexander III the Great type
After the death of Philip III in 316 BC, power was widely disputed between Olympias, mother of Alexander, Alexander IV and the Diadochi, in particular Cassander and Antigone. Antigone le Borgne appears on the political scene in 321 BC by crushing Eumenes, satrap of Cappadocia, who will be assassinated by Antigone in 316 BC. From the following year, Antigone enters into the fight against Seleucus, Ptolemy, Cassander and Lysimachus. Antigone occupied Syria and proclaimed the freedom of the Greek cities in 314 BC. Antigone and his son Demetrius were defeated in Gaza. A peace that excludes Seleucus is signed in 311 BC In 306, Demetrius wins the naval victory of Salamis in Cyprus. Antigone takes the title of King, imitated by the other Diadoques. Eventually Antigonus was defeated and killed at the Battle of Ipsos in 301 BC..
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