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Live auction - bgr_767100 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - DEMETRIOS POLIORCETES Drachme

MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - DEMETRIOS POLIORCETES Drachme AU
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Estimate : 450 €
Price : 275 €
Maximum bid : 275 €
End of the sale : 25 October 2022 14:08:33
bidders : 2 bidders
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 301-297 AC.
Mint name / Town : Colophon, Ionie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 4,29 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée présentant un superbe portrait ainsi qu’un très joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe 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 ; dans le champ à gauche une tête de lion surmontant un phi tourné à gauche ; pentagramme sous le siège.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU/ F.
Reverse translation : (D’Alexandre).

Historical background


MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - DEMETRIOS POLIORCETES

(301-288 BC)

Coinage in the name of Alexander III the Great type

Demetrius, is the son of Antigone le Borgne who was killed at the battle of Ipsos in 301 BC. He crushed the fleet of Ptolemy at the battle of Salamis in Cyprus (The statue of the Victory of Samothrace). A great strategist, he received the nickname 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 BC)..

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