bgr_329466 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER Tétradrachme
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Price : 1 250.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: 315-294 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amphipolis, Macédoine
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,42 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien cnetré des deux côtés. Belle tête de Zeus. Revers de style fin. Magnifique patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Cavalier au pas à droite, tenant une palme de la main droite ; le cheval lève l'antérieur à droite ; sous le cheval, entre les antérieurs, une abeille.
Reverse legend : FILIP-POU/ (AN)
Commentary
Au revers, le cavalier est stylisé.
On the reverse, the rider is stylized
On the reverse, the rider is stylized
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER
(319-297 BC)
Coinage in the name of Philipp II of Macedonia type
Cassander, the first of the epigones, succeeded his father, Antipater, in 319 BC. He allied himself in 315 with Seleucus, Ptolemy and Lysimachus to fight Antigone and Demetrius. In 311 BC, he killed Roxane and Alexander IV. In 305 BC, he took the title of King. Cassander triumphed over Antigone at Ipsos where the latter died. He was killed in 297 BC with his son Philip IV. After the death of Demetrius Poloircète in 283 BC, it was his son Antigone Gonatas who ascended the throne of Macedonia.
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