bgr_705927 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Demi-unité de bronze
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Type : Demi-unité de bronze
Date: c. 336-332 AC.
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Amphipolis ?
Metal : copper
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,36 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée présentant un très bel aigle au revers. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d’Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à droite sur un foudre, tournant la tête à gauche ; au-dessus, un croissant vu de dessus.
Reverse legend : ALEXA/NDROU.
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).
Commentary
Au revers, l’aigle semble surmonter d’une crête, faisant penser à un coq. Nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente pour ce type. L’exemplaire du British Museum est entré en 1824 et provient de la collection Knight (MP. 91b, pl. CXLIV).
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT
(336-323 BC)
Coinage in the name and Alexander III the Great type
Alexander III the Great is the son of Philip II of Macedon and Olympias. He was born in 356 BC, when Philip's horses were triumphing at the Olympic Games. On the death of his father, who was assassinated in 336 BC, he became king of Macedonia at the age of twenty. He immediately crushes the Thebans and razes the city which had revolted. In 334 BC, he went to Asia and, after the victory of Granicus, set out to conquer the Achaemenid Empire, which would take him to Persepolis, then to the gates of India. Back in Babylon, in 325, he married Roxane who gave him a son. Two years later, he died without having completed his work, aged thirty-three..
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