v38_0124 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ANTIGONUS MONOPHTALMUS Drachme
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
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Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 310-301 AC.
Mint name / Town : Mysie, Lampsaque
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,19 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés avec le grènetis visible au droit. Beau portrait particulier. Très joli revers. Magnifique patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore, les jambes croisées, 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 ; monogramme dans le champ à gauche et un autre sous le trône.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDR[OU]// KI/ N
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).
Commentary
Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du British Museum (MP. 1401, pl. CXXII).
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ANTIGONUS MONOPHTALMUS
(323-301 BC)
Coinage in the name of Alexander III the Great type
After the death of Philip III in 316 BC, power was widely disputed between Olympias, mother of Alexander, Alexander IV and the Diadochi, in particular Cassander and Antigone. Antigone le Borgne appears on the political scene in 321 BC by crushing Eumenes, satrap of Cappadocia, who will be assassinated by Antigone in 316 BC. From the following year, Antigone enters into the fight against Seleucus, Ptolemy, Cassander and Lysimachus. Antigone occupied Syria and proclaimed the freedom of the Greek cities in 314 BC. Antigone and his son Demetrius were defeated in Gaza. A peace that excludes Seleucus is signed in 311 BC In 306, Demetrius wins the naval victory of Salamis in Cyprus. Antigone takes the title of King, imitated by the other Diadoques. Eventually Antigonus was defeated and killed at the Battle of Ipsos in 301 BC..
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