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Live auction - bgr_826482 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER Tétradrachme

MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER Tétradrachme AU
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bgr_826482
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Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 315-294 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amphipolis, Macédoine
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 17,15 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Joli portrait d’Héraklès, bien venu à la frappe. Monnaie quasi SPL. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.

Reverse


Reverse description : Zeus aétophore, les jambes croisées, 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 bouleté de la gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, une torche allumée ; sous le trône, bonnet des Dioscures surmonté d’un étoile à six rais ; trois globules à l’exergue.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU/ L/ (MGR).
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).

Historical background


MACEDONIA - KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - CASSANDRE

(319-297 BC)

Coining the name and type of Alexander III the Great

Cassandra, the first Epigoni, succeeded his father, Antipater in 319 BC He allied himself with 315 Seleucus, Ptolemy and Lysimachus to fight Antigonus and Demetrius. In 311 BC, he killed Roxane and Alexander IV. In 305 BC he took the title of king. Cassandra triumphed Antigone Ipsos where it was killed. He was killed in 297 BC with his son Philip IV and his son Antigonus Gonatas who eventually succeeded him in 283 BC to the death of Demetrius Poliorcetes.

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