bgr_950424 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS Drachme
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Type : Drachme
Date: c. 323-319 AC.
Mint name / Town : Lydie, Sardes
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,23 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Superbe portrait de style fin. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore assis à gauche sur un siège sans dossier, les jambes croisées, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, tenant un aigle posé sur sa main droite et un long sceptre bouleté de la gauche.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU/ B/TI/ G
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS
(323-316 BC)
Coinage in the name of Philipp III and Alexander 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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