v49_0157 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER Unité, (PB, Æ 17)
MONNAIES 49 (2011)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
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Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Unité, (PB, Æ 17)
Date: c. 310-305 AC.
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Amphipolis ou Pella
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 4,22 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, court sur la légende de revers, bien centré au droit. Très beau portrait d’Héraklès. Joli revers de style fin. Très belle patine vert olive foncé lissée
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Claude Silberstein (1994)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès (hercule) à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Lion couché à droite s’apprêtant à bondir.
Reverse legend : KASSAN/[DR.U]
Commentary
Représentation inhabituelle.
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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