bgr_866485 - MACEDONIA - KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS Drachme
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Price : 395.00 €
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 323-317 AC.
Mint name / Town : Lampsaque, Mysie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,37 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan légèrement décentré au droit. Superbe revers, finement détaillé. Patine grise avec des reflets bleutés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore assis à gauche sur un trône sans dossier, les jambes croisées, 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 serpent.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU/ (AW)
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).
Commentary
L’attribution à Lampsaque est assurée au regard du monogramme placé sous le trône, et du symbole (serpent) dans le champ à gauche.
The attribution to Lampsaque is assured by the monogram placed under the throne, and the symbol (serpent) in the field to the left
The attribution to Lampsaque is assured by the monogram placed under the throne, and the symbol (serpent) in the field to the left
Historical background
MACEDONIA - KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS
(323-316 BC)
Coinage in the name and Alexander III the Great type
Philip, son of Philip II and the half-brother of Alexander, was not entirely in his right mind. On the death of the conqueror and faced with the lack of power, in order to maintain the fiction of the unity of the Empire, he was proclaimed king, but in fact he had no power. He was assassinated at the instigation of Olympias, Alexander's mother, in 316 BC.
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