Live auction - bgr_356280 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ANTIGONUS DOSON Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 15 000 € |
| Price : | 9 500 € |
| Maximum bid : | 9 500 € |
| End of the sale : | 30 June 2015 14:12:47 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 225 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amphipolis, Macédoine
Metal : silver
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 17,01 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un flan large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait magnifique de Poséidon où tous les détails de la barbe et de la chevelure sont visibles. Revers fantastique, de haut relief et finement détaillé. Très jolie patine avec des reflets métalliques dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 47, n° 67
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Poséidon à droite, coiffée d’une couronne de roseau.
Reverse
Reverse description : Apollon nu assis à gauche sur la proue d'un navire, tenant un arc de la main droite ; à l'exergue, deux monogrammes.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS// ANTIGONOU// (PIWU) (AR)
Reverse translation : (du roi Antigone).
Commentary
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle avec une variante de monogramme rarissime au revers (AP).
Exceptional quality example with a very rare monogram variant on the reverse (AP)
Exceptional quality example with a very rare monogram variant on the reverse (AP)
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ANTIGONUS DOSON
(229-221 BC)
Antigone Doson is a cousin of Demetrius II (239-229 AC.) whom he succeeded, Philip V (221-179 AC.) his son, being too young. Allied with Antiochus Hierax (246-227 AC.), brother and unfortunate competitor of Seleucus II, Antigonus won a brilliant naval victory over the Ptolemaic fleet and its Carian and Rhodian allies in 227 BC off the coast of the island. of Andros in the Cyclades. Allied to the Achaean league, Antigone Doson, won an important victory and definitively crushed the Spartan power at the Battle of Sellasia in 222 BC..
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