bgr_988618 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER Statère
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Type : Statère
Date: c. 317-305 AC
Mint name / Town : Amphipolis, Macédoine
Metal : gold
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,60 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait d’Athéna, bien venu à la frappe. Joli revers. Monnaie quasi SUP. Patine de collection
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, un trident et un monogramme.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU
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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