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Price : 1 200.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 317-311 AC.
Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 17,14 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Très beau portrait d’Héraklès, bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise avec des 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 trônant à gauche sur un siège à dossier, tenant un aigle de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche ; dans le champ à gauche monogramme et un autre sous le trône.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU/ (OMT)/ DHPW)
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).
Commentary
Semble complètement inédit et non recensé. Manque à l’ouvrage de Price, cependant très complet ainsi qu’au supplément de Hersch dans les mélanges dédiés à la mémoire de M. Price. Le style fait penser aux tétradrachmes phéniciens comme celui Mararhus ?.
Historical background
SYRIA - SELEUKID KINGDOM - SELEUKOS I NIKATOR
(323-280 BC)
Coinage in the name of Alexander III the Great type - Satrapos
Seleucus I (355-280 BC), one of Alexander's lieutenants, arrived in 323 BC in Babylon. He became a satrap in 321 BC, but was dispossessed of it by Eumenes in 316 BC. He only recovered his territories after the victory of Gaza in 312 BC, won by Ptolemy on Demetrius Poliorcetes. He fights against Antigone le Borgne (310-308 BC) and also leads a great conquest that takes him to India. After 306 BC, he took the title of Basileos and opposed Cassander and Lysimachus who disputed Asia Minor with him. After the death of Antigone at Ipsos in 301 BC, he is the most powerful diadoque with Ptolemy. He won the victory of Couroupédion in 281 BC where his old enemy, Lysimachus was killed. He was assassinated the following year at the instigation of Ptolemy Keraunos as he prepared to invade Thrace and Macedonia. Ultimate survivor of the Diadochi, he leaves the Empire of Alexander in the hands of the Epigoni.
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