bgr_287567 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER Unité
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 145.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 145.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 304-297 AC.
Mint name / Town : Philippi, Macédoine
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 6,67 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait d’Apollon à l’usure régulière. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Weil de juillet 1985
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droite, les cheveux longs tombant sur la nuque ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse
Reverse description : Trépied delphien richement ornementé ; étoile à huit rais dans le champ à droite.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ KASSANDROU
Reverse translation : (du roi Cassandre).
Commentary
Représentation inhabituelle du portait où tous les détails de la chevleure d’Apollon sont visibles. Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. Avec ce symbole dans le champ à droite, ne semble pas recensé.
Unusual representation of the portrait where all the details of Apollo's hair are visible. This type seems rarer than general works suggest. With this symbol in the right field, does not seem to be recorded.
Unusual representation of the portrait where all the details of Apollo's hair are visible. This type seems rarer than general works suggest. With this symbol in the right field, does not seem to be recorded.
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER
(319-297 BC)
Coinage in the name of Alexander III the Great 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 assumed 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 and it was his son Antigone Gonatas who finally succeeded him in 283 BC on the death of Demetrius Poliorcetes.
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