v23_0058 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 23 (2004)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 330.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 330.00 €
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 330.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 330.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 332-323 AC.
Mint name / Town : Chypre, Salamine
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 17,21 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais. A été anciennement nettoyé avec une jolie patine de médaillier et des reflets bleutés
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore, les jambes croisées, 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 arc.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDR[OU]
Commentary
Ce type se rencontre dans le trésor de Demanhour (IGCH. 1664), découvert en 1905, enfoui vers 318 avant J.-C. et qui aurait contenu plus de 8000 pièces d’argent dont neuf exemplaires avec l’arc pour l’atelier de Salamine de Chypre .
This type is found in the Demanhour treasure (IGCH. 1664), discovered in 1905, buried around 318 BC and which is said to have contained more than 8000 silver coins including nine examples with the bow for the Salamis mint in Cyprus.
This type is found in the Demanhour treasure (IGCH. 1664), discovered in 1905, buried around 318 BC and which is said to have contained more than 8000 silver coins including nine examples with the bow for the Salamis mint in Cyprus.
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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