bgr_287317 - THRACE - THRACIAN KINGDOM - LYSIMACHOS Drachme
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Price : 320.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 320.00 €
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 305-297 AC.
Mint name / Town : Magnésie du Méandre, Ionie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,29 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur petit flan bien centré des deux côtés avec le grènetis visible au droit. Beau portrait expressif d’Héraklès. Revers de joli style, finement détaillé. Recouvert d’une jolie patine grise avec des reflets dorés
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Burgan de janvier 1983
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore assis à gauche sur un trône sans dossier, les jambes parallèles, 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, tête de lion stylisée à gauche ; monogramme sous le trône ; lettre derrière dans le champ à droite.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU/ E/ (AI)
Commentary
Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du British Museum n° 1991b, pl. CXXX acquis avant 1925. Trace de cassure de coin visible au revers passant par la petite tête de lion.
Same obverse die as the British Museum copy no. 1991b, pl. CXXX acquired before 1925. Trace of die break visible on the reverse passing through the small lion's head
Same obverse die as the British Museum copy no. 1991b, pl. CXXX acquired before 1925. Trace of die break visible on the reverse passing through the small lion's head
Historical background
THRACE - THRACIAN KINGDOM - LYSIMACHOS
(323-281 BC)
Coinage in the name of Alexander III the Great type
Lysimachus (c. 360-281 BC) was one of Alexander's leading generals. After the death of the brilliant conqueror on June 14, 323 BC, a fratricidal fight opposed the Diadochi, his successors. Lysimachus, initially favorable to the survival of the Empire, supports Antipater before becoming independent in 315 before J. - C., receiving the administration of Thrace. In 306 BC, after the naval battle of Salamis in Cyprus, Lysimachus, imitating Antigonus the One-eyed, his irreducible enemy, took the title of king (Basileos), both followed by Demetrius, Ptolemy, Seleucus and Cassander. Allied with Ptolémée, they crush Antigone which dies with the battle of Ipsos in 301 before J. - C. It is the birth of the kingdom of Thrace and the beginning of the personal coinage of Lysimaque. He must fight against Demetrius in Macedonia and Thrace. After 288 BC, he remained the most powerful of the reigning monarchs over Europe and Asia Minor. Lysimachus, aged 80, was killed at the Battle of Couroupédion in 281 BC..
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