Live auction - bgr_1093520 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS Tétradrachme
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Live starting : Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 323-320 AC.
Mint name / Town : Phénicie, Arados
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 16,90 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan large, centré. Joli portrait d’Héraklès, bien venu à la frappe. Revers agréable. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection André Ronde
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté, nouée sous le cou ; grènetis circulaire perlé.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore, les jambes croisées, assis à gauche sur un siège avec dossier, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, tenant un aigle posé sur sa main droite et un long sceptre bouleté de la gauche ; les pieds reposent sur un marche-pied ; dans le champ à gauche, une proue de galère à gauche avec son pont supérieur et deux lettres grecques à l’intérieur ; lettre grecque sous le trône ; grènetis circulaire perlé.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ FILIPPOU/ LU/ I
Reverse translation : (du roi Philippe).
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS
(323-316 BC)
Coinage in the name of Philipp III and Alexander type
Philip, son of Philip II and the half-brother of Alexander, was not entirely in his right mind. On the death of the conqueror and faced with the lack of power, in order to maintain the fiction of the unity of the Empire, he was proclaimed king, but in fact he had no power. He was assassinated at the instigation of Olympias, Alexander's mother, in 316 BC.
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