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Live auction - bgr_434631 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Tétradrachme

MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Tétradrachme AU
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Estimate : 950 €
Price : 650 €
Maximum bid : 650 €
End of the sale : 12 September 2017 14:11:20
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 325-323 AC.
Mint name / Town : Babylone, Babylonie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 17,20 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Belle tête d’Héraklès. Revers de style fin. Patine grise superficielle avec des reflets dorés. A été nettoyé anciennement
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Helios Numismatik

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 avec dossier, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, tenant un aigle posé sur sa main droite et un long sceptre bouleté de la gauche ; les pieds reposent sur un marchepied ; dans le champ à gauche une abeille ; monogramme sous le trône.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU/ (Mo)/ (IFLI)/ M.

Commentary


Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du British Museum (MP. 3619, pl. CIII). Sur cet exemplaire et pour l’atelier de Babylone, la crinière de la léonté (dépouille de lion) n’est pas parallèle, mais tombante. En revanche, les jambes du Zeus sont bien parallèles ce qui indique que la pièce a été frappée du vivant d’Alexandre. Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.

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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