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bgr_565844 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - DEMETRIOS POLIORCETES Demi-unité

MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - DEMETRIOS POLIORCETES Demi-unité XF
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Price : 125.00 €
Type : Demi-unité
Date: c. 294-284 AC.
Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain, Macédoine
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 4,68 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Joli droit inhabituel. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Laffaille-  - MP.-  - Cop.-  - GC.6774  - Alpha bank-  - HGCS. 3/11027

Obverse

Obverse description : Monogramme placé au centre d'un bouclier macédonien.

Reverse

Reverse description : Casque macédonien vu de face ; un croissant dans le champ.
Reverse legend : BA-SI.
Reverse translation : (Roi).

Commentary

L’attribution de ce type semble incertaine et non confirmée bien que Démétrius Poliorcète semble probable.

Historical background

MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - DEMETRIOS POLIORCETES

(294-288 BC)

Coinage in the name of Demetrios type

Demetrius, son of Antigone le Borgne who was killed at the Battle of Ipsos in 301 BC, crushed Ptolemy's fleet at the Battle of Salamis (The Victory of Samothrace statue). A great strategist, he received the title of Poliorcète (the besieger). King of Macedonia after the death of Cassander, in 294 BC, he was dethroned by Lysimachus and Pyrrhus and died a prisoner of Antiochus in Syria (283 AC.).

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