Live auction - bgr_431931 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER Statère d'or
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| Estimate : | 5 500 € |
| Price : | 3 500 € |
| Maximum bid : | 3 601 € |
| End of the sale : | 13 June 2017 14:07:41 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Statère d'or
Date: c. 310-297 AC.
Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain, Macédoine ou Grèce
Metal : gold
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,62 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un petit flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très belle tête d’Athéna. Revers de toute beauté, de haut relief, finement détaillé. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée d'Athéna à droite, coiffée du casque corinthien à aigrette, orné d'un serpent ; les cheveux tombant sur la nuque en mèches torsadées.
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 fourmi placée verticalement ; au-dessous, une étoile à huit rais.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU/ (PD).
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).
Commentary
Semble de mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du British Museum provenant de la collection Bunbury, 1896, pl. III, n° 832.
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER
(319-297 BC)
Coinage in the name of Alexander III the Great type
Cassander, the first of the Epigones, succeeded his father, Antipater, in 319 BC. He allied himself in 315 with Seleucus, Ptolemy and Lysimachus to fight Antigone and Demetrius. In 311 BC, he killed Roxane and Alexander IV. In 305 BC, he assumed the title of king. Cassander triumphed over Antigone at Ipsos where the latter died. He was killed in 297 BC with his son Philip IV and it was his son Antigone Gonatas who finally succeeded him in 283 BC on the death of Demetrius Poliorcetes.
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