bgr_293691 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ALEXANDER III THE GREAT Unité
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 325-310 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amphipolis, Macédoine
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,70 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais, ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec le grènetis visible. Beau portrait d’Héraklès. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine marron foncé légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d’Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Légende entre un goryte avec son arc et une massue posée horizontalement tournée à gauche ; au-dessous, une feuille de vigne tournée à droite.
Reverse legend : B - A, (Basilews Alexandrou).
Reverse translation : (du roi Alexandre).
Commentary
Ce type bien que portant les initiales d’Alexandre est posthume et peut avoir été frappé au nom d’Alexandre IV, le fils posthume du conquérant.
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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