v41_0139 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ANTIGONUS MONOPHTALMUS Drachme
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 310-301 AC.
Mint name / Town : Troade, Abydos
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,13 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré. usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore les jambes parallèles, assis à gauche sur un siège sans dossier, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, tenant un aigle posé sur sa main droite et un long sceptre de la gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, un monogramme, un autre sous le trône.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDR[OU]/ (MUPOR)/ (WI)
Commentary
Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society provenant du trésor d’Armenak NS. 19/ 286, pl. 30 avec une feuille de lierre sous le trône (MP. 1545). Avec ce nouveau monogramme sous le trône, semble complètement inédit et non répertorié. Manque à tous les ouvrages consultés.
Same obverse die as the American Numismatic Society copy from the Armenak hoard NS. 19/286, pl. 30 with an ivy leaf under the throne (MP. 1545). With this new monogram under the throne, it appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted. Missing from all consulted works
Same obverse die as the American Numismatic Society copy from the Armenak hoard NS. 19/286, pl. 30 with an ivy leaf under the throne (MP. 1545). With this new monogram under the throne, it appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted. Missing from all consulted works
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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