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Live auction - bgr_340729 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - DEMETRIOS POLIORCETES Tétradrachme

MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - DEMETRIOS POLIORCETES Tétradrachme AU
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Estimate : 2 500 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 03 December 2014 14:10:32
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 292-290 AC
Mint name / Town : Pella, Macédoine
Metal : silver
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 16,77 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Revers inhabituel, bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine grise avec des reflets métalliques. A été nettoyé anciennement
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 34, n° 124. Certificat d’exportation

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée et cornue de Démétrius à droite.

Reverse


Reverse description : Poséidon nu jusqu’à la ceinture, assis à gauche sur un rocher, tenant un aplustre de la main droite et un trident de la main gauche ; monogramme sur le rocher.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ DHMHTRIOU/ (DI)/ (ANI).
Reverse translation : (Du roi Démétrius).

Commentary


Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du trésor de Meydancikkale (Gülnar II, n° 2570, pl. 74). Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du musée d’Athènes (CDP. n° 75, pl. VII, n°6, A/ LXIII - R/ 117). Ce type est en fait beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.

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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