bgr_374963 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Statère d'or
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Price : 1 800.00 €
Type : Statère d'or
Date: c. 328-323 AC.
Mint name / Town : Arados, Phénicie
Metal : gold
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,56 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier. Belle tête d’Athéna. Revers à l’usure régulière. A été nettoyé
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée d'Athéna à droite, coiffée du casque corinthien à aigrette, orné d'un serpent sur l’accroche près de la visière ; les cheveux tombant sur la nuque en mèches mêlées.
Reverse
Reverse description : Niké debout à gauche, les ailes déployées, tenant de la main droite une couronne et de la gauche la stylis ; dans le champ à gauche, un caducée.
Reverse legend : BA-SILEWS/ ALEXANDROU/ (Ar).
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).
Commentary
Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du British Museum (MP. 3331a, pl. XII). Ce type se rencontre dans le trésor d’Anadol.
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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