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E-auction 377-289322 - bgr_594424 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER Unité

MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER Unité VF
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Estimate : 95 €
Price : 76 €
Maximum bid : 97 €
End of the sale : 06 July 2020 14:00:30
bidders : 7 bidders
Type : Unité
Date: c. 305 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amphipolis, Macédoine
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 6,40 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré à l’usure très importante, lisible et identifiable. Piqué et corrodé
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès imberbe à droite, coiffée de la léonté.

Reverse


Reverse description : Cavalier au pas à droite, couronnant son cheval.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ KASSAN/DR.U/ D - (TA).

Historical background


MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER

(319-297 BC)

Coinage in the name of Alexander III the Great type

Cassander, the first of the Epigones, succeeded his father, Antipater, in 319 BC. He allied himself in 315 with Seleucus, Ptolemy and Lysimachus to fight Antigone and Demetrius. In 311 BC, he killed Roxane and Alexander IV. In 305 BC, he assumed the title of king. Cassander triumphed over Antigone at Ipsos where the latter died. He was killed in 297 BC with his son Philip IV and it was his son Antigone Gonatas who finally succeeded him in 283 BC on the death of Demetrius Poliorcetes.

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