Live auction - bgr_372024 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP II Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 1 500 € |
| Price : | 950 € |
| Maximum bid : | 1 100 € |
| End of the sale : | 15 December 2015 14:07:38 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 342/341 - 329/8 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amphipolis, Macédoine
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 14,50 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Très belle tête large et massive de Zeus. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine grise superficielle avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Cavalier au pas à droite, tenant une palme de la main droite ; le cheval lève l'antérieur à droite ; entre les jambes du cheval, une tête janiforme.
Reverse legend : FILIP-POU
Reverse translation : (de Philippe).
Commentary
Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du Musée d’Athènes provenant du tréosr d’Haghioi Thédoroi près de Lamia en 1901-1902. Georges Le Rider signale qu’un exemplaire similaire aurait pu se trouver dans le trésor péonien de 1968.
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP II
(359-336 BC)
Philip of Macedon was the brother of Perdiccas III (365-359 AC.), both sons of Amyntas III (381-369 AC.). Their older brother Alexander II was assassinated by Ptolemy who received the regency for Perdiccas III and Philip II (369-365 AC.). Ptolemy was finally killed by Philip II in 365 BC while his brother died fighting the Illyrians six years later. Philip II began the conquest of the Greek world from 357 BC He was the indefatigable enemy of Athens and Demosthenes. He seized Amphipolis in 357 BC and took twenty years to conquer Greece. The victory of Chéronée crowned his work in 338 before J. - C. He was assassinated in 336 before J. - C., at the instigation of his first wife, Olympias, who was afraid to see her son Alexander, dispossessed of the throne of Macedonia after the birth of a boy from a second marriage.
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