bgr_703397 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Obole
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Type : Obole
Date: c. 332-323 AC
Mint name / Town : Arados (?), Phénicie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 9 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 0,53 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli portrait. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès imberbe à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore assis à gauche, les jambes parallèles, sur un siège sans dossier, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, tenant un aigle posé sur sa main droite et un long sceptre bouleté de la gauche ; un oiseau sous le trône ?.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDRoU/ (AR).
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).
Commentary
Généralement, ce type fut frappé en Orient, en particulier, en Phénicie et en Babylonie et dans les ateliers impériaux comme Suse ou Ecbatane.
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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