Live auction - bgr_403433 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Statère
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| Estimate : | 6 500 € |
| Price : | 4 101 € |
| Maximum bid : | 4 200 € |
| End of the sale : | 27 September 2016 14:11:18 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Statère
Date: c. 330-320 AC
Mint name / Town : Amphipolis, Macédoine
Metal : gold
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,62 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Tête d’Athéna de toute beauté. Revers de haut relief. Magnifique patine de collection avec des reflets mordorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée d'Athéna à droite, coiffée du casque corinthien à aigrette, orné d'un serpent.
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, une tête de trident renversée.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU.
Commentary
Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du British Museum (Woodhouse, 1866, MP. 175b, pl. II).
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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