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bgr_588127 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER Tétradrachme

MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER Tétradrachme AU
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Price : 550.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 315-310 AC.
Mint name / Town : Pella, Macédoine
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 17,03 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire idéalement centré. Très joli portrait d’Héraklès. Fine usure superficielle. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
MP.248

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 avec 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, un bouclier béotien .
Reverse legend : ALEXANDRoU.
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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