Live auction - bgr_520884 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 2 200 € |
| Price : | 2 700 € |
| Maximum bid : | 2 700 € |
| End of the sale : | 05 March 2019 14:10:46 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 325-315 AC.
Mint name / Town : Pella, Macédoine
Metal : silver
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 17,22 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan large et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec le grènetis visible au droit. Tête d’Héraklès tout à fait spectaculaire de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Revers de toute beauté, en particulier, au niveau de la tête et du buste de Zeus où tous les détails corporels sont visibles. En revanche, faiblesse de frappe sur l’abeille butinant la rose comme sur la majorité des exemplaires. Très belle patine grise superficielle avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore, les jambes parallèles, assis à gauche 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 ; dans le champ à gauche, une abeille butinant une rose.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU.
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire, le sceptre bouleté, semble tréflé. Les monnaies pour l’atelier de Pella sont beaucoup moins courantes.
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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