v41_0137 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ANTIGONUS MONOPHTALMUS Drachme
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 120.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 128.00 €
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 120.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 128.00 €
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 310-301 AC.
Mint name / Town : Mysie, Lampsaque
Metal : silver
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 4,18 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait particulier. Très joli revers avec un symbole inhabituel. Usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
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 ; souris tournée à droite dans le champ à gauche.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDR[OU]// (KHT)
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire, le monogramme est normal au lieu d’inversé comme signalé par M. Price (MP. 1429) d’après l’exemplaire conservé à l’ANS = ADM. 2, 416 pl. 14 (Même coin de droit que notre exemplaire). Semble complètement inédit et non recensé. Nouveau monogramme, non repris dans l’ouvrage de Price .
On this example, the monogram is normal instead of inverted as reported by Mr. Price (MP. 1429) according to the example preserved at the ANS = ADM. 2, 416 pl. 14 (Same obverse corner as our example). Seems completely unpublished and unlisted. New monogram, not included in Price's work
On this example, the monogram is normal instead of inverted as reported by Mr. Price (MP. 1429) according to the example preserved at the ANS = ADM. 2, 416 pl. 14 (Same obverse corner as our example). Seems completely unpublished and unlisted. New monogram, not included in Price's work
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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