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bgr_519217 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Tétradrachme

MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Tétradrachme VF
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Price : 150.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 330-325 AC.
Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain, Grèce ?
Metal : silver
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,24 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et bien centré des deux côtés. Usure importante. Toutefois, la monnaie reste lisible. Patine grise superficielle
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté ; contremarque en forme d’ancre dans l’oreille.

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 une tête de cheval (?).
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU

Commentary


Contremarque en forme d’ancre dans l’oreille d’Héraklès au droit.
Anchor-shaped countermark in the ear of Heracles on the right

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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