bgr_273253 - MACEDONIA - KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS Drachme
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 75.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 75.00 €
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 323-317 AC.
Mint name / Town : Mysie, Lampsaque
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,71 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit ovale irrégulier. Beau portrait d’Héraklès. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets gris foncé
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 semble plausible au regard du monogramme placé sous le trône, mais le symbole (serpent) n’est pas visible.
The attribution to Lampsacus seems plausible in view of the monogram placed under the throne, but the symbol (serpent) is not visible
The attribution to Lampsacus seems plausible in view of the monogram placed under the throne, but the symbol (serpent) is not visible
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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