bgr_713940 - MACEDONIA - KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS Demi-unité
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Type : Demi-unité
Date: c. 323-319 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sardes, Lydie
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,36 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, centré. Joli revers. Usure régulière. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de gorgone (gorgoneion) placée au centre d'un bouclier macédonien.
Reverse
Reverse description : Casque macédonien vu de face ; Rose dans le champ à gauche.
Reverse legend : B-A.
Historical background
MACEDONIA - KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS
(323-316 BC)
Coinage in the name and Alexander III the Great type
Philip, son of Philip II and the half-brother of Alexander, was not entirely in his right mind. On the death of the conqueror and faced with the lack of power, in order to maintain the fiction of the unity of the Empire, he was proclaimed king, but in fact he had no power. He was assassinated at the instigation of Olympias, Alexander's mother, in 316 BC.
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