v41_0128 - MACEDONIA - KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 145.00 €
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 145.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 323-320 AC.
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Amphipolis
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 16,01 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure importante, mais très important historiquement. Patine de collection ancienne
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XXIV, n° 61
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore, les jambes parallèles, assis à gauche sur un siège sans dossier, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, tenant un aigle posé sur sa main droite et un long sceptre de la main gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, bois.
Reverse legend : BASIL-EWS/ ALEXANDROU
Commentary
Poids très léger. La légende au revers est plutôt inhabituelle et n’est pas forcément distinguée par M. Price dans son corpus, mais signalée par H. A. Troxell.
Very light weight. The legend on the reverse is rather unusual and is not necessarily distinguished by Mr. Price in his corpus, but noted by H.A. Troxell
Very light weight. The legend on the reverse is rather unusual and is not necessarily distinguished by Mr. Price in his corpus, but noted by H.A. Troxell
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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