Live auction - bgr_913919 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - DEMETRIOS POLIORCETES Tétradrachme
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Live starting : Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 290-287 AC
Mint name / Town : Chalcis, Eubée
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 17,10 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan court idéalement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Démétrius Poliorcète, bien venu à la frappe. Joli revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant du stock de Thomas Bentley Cederlind de la vente Gorny & Mosch 233, n° 1331 (mal décrit) de la vente CNG 102, lot n° 248 et de la collection P-R. B
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Démétrius Poliorcète diadémée à droite, ornée d’une corne de taureau ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse
Reverse description : Poséidon nu, debout à gauche, le pied droit posé sur un rocher, le bras droit posé sur son genou et tenant un trident de la main gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, un monogramme.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS / DHMHTRIOU.
Reverse translation : (du roi Démétrius).
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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