v41_0141 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ANTIGONUS MONOPHTALMUS Drachme
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 319-305 AC.
Mint name / Town : Ionie, Magnésie du Méandre
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,17 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur petit flan étroit, parfaitement centré au droit, légèrement décentré au revers. Beau portrait expressif. Revers de joli style, finement détaillé. Recouvert d’une jolie patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore assis à gauche sur un trône sans dossier, les jambes parallèles, 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, lettre dans une couronne au-dessus d’une lettre ; monogramme sous le trône.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU/ A/ E/ AI
Commentary
Semble de même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de Meydancikkale (n° 1431, pl. 40).
Seems to have the same obverse as the Meydancikkale copy (no. 1431, pl. 40)
Seems to have the same obverse as the Meydancikkale copy (no. 1431, pl. 40)
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ANTIGONUS MONOPHTALMUS
(323-301 BC)
Coinage in the name of Alexander III the Great type
After the death of Philip III in 316 BC, power was widely disputed between Olympias, mother of Alexander, Alexander IV and the Diadochi, in particular Cassander and Antigone. Antigone le Borgne appears on the political scene in 321 BC by crushing Eumenes, satrap of Cappadocia, who will be assassinated by Antigone in 316 BC. From the following year, Antigone enters into the fight against Seleucus, Ptolemy, Cassander and Lysimachus. Antigone occupied Syria and proclaimed the freedom of the Greek cities in 314 BC. Antigone and his son Demetrius were defeated in Gaza. A peace that excludes Seleucus is signed in 311 BC In 306, Demetrius wins the naval victory of Salamis in Cyprus. Antigone takes the title of King, imitated by the other Diadoques. Eventually Antigonus was defeated and killed at the Battle of Ipsos in 301 BC..
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