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v55_0018 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Statère d’or

MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Statère d’or XF
MONNAIES 55 (2012)
Starting price : 1 100.00 €
Estimate : 1 900.00 €
Realised price : 2 102.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 2 400.00 €
Type : Statère d’or
Date: c. 325-323
Mint name / Town : Pamphylie, Sidé
Metal : gold
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 8,56 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan légèrement voilé, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait d’Athéna particulier. Joli revers de style fin. Ancienne traces de monture sur la tranche
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée d’Athéna à droite, coiffée du casque corinthien à triple aigrette orné d’un serpent, les mèches de cheveux torsadés tombant sur la nuque.

Reverse


Reverse description : Niké debout à gauche, les ailes déployées, tenant de la main droite une couronne et de la gauche la stylis ; dans le champ à gauche, lettres grecques.
Reverse legend : BA-SILEWS/ ALEXANDROU/ FI/ SB.
Reverse translation : (du roi Alexandre).

Commentary


A été monté anciennement. Notre exemplaire est proche de celui du British Museum (MP., n° 2957, pl. VIII). Cependant, nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente.

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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