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v25_0059 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Drachme

MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Drachme XF
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 198.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 198.00 €
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 325-323 AC.
Mint name / Town : Ionie, Milet
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,10 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et complet. Beau portrait finement patiné sur un flan à l’aspect légèrement granuleux. Petite faiblesse de frappe au revers
Catalogue references :

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 bouleté de la gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, un foudre posé verticalement.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDRO[U]// HD.

Commentary


Même coin de droit que les exemplaires du British Museum (MP. 2088 d et e, provenant des collections Woodhouse et Lincoln, entrés respectivement en 1886 et 1907) et que celui de l’American Numismatic Society.

Historical background


MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT

(336-323 BC)

Coinage in the name and Alexander III the Great type

Alexander III the Great is the son of Philip II of Macedon and Olympias. He was born in 356 BC, when Philip's horses were triumphing at the Olympic Games. On the death of his father, who was assassinated in 336 BC, he became king of Macedonia at the age of twenty. He immediately crushes the Thebans and razes the city which had revolted. In 334 BC, he went to Asia and, after the victory of Granicus, set out to conquer the Achaemenid Empire, which would take him to Persepolis, then to the gates of India. Back in Babylon, in 325, he married Roxane who gave him a son. Two years later, he died without having completed his work, aged thirty-three..

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