bgr_361253 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Tétradrachme
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Price : 850.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 325-323 AC.
Mint name / Town : Babylone, Babylonie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 17,19 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Revers de style fin. Jolie patine avec des reflets dorés
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, mais la jambe gauche fléchie, 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 faucille ; monogramme sous le trône.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU/ M
Commentary
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.
On this example and for the Babylonian mint, the mane of the lion (lion's skin) is not parallel, but drooping. On the other hand, the legs of Zeus are indeed parallel, which indicates that the coin was struck during Alexander's lifetime.
On this example and for the Babylonian mint, the mane of the lion (lion's skin) is not parallel, but drooping. On the other hand, the legs of Zeus are indeed parallel, which indicates that the coin was struck during Alexander's lifetime.
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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