Live auction - bgr_382241 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS Statère d'or
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| Estimate : | 4 200 € |
| Price : | 2 900 € |
| Maximum bid : | 3 100 € |
| End of the sale : | 01 March 2016 14:04:25 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Statère d'or
Date: c. 323-316 AC.
Mint name / Town : Abydos, Troade
Metal : gold
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 8,57 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Très belle tête d’Apollon au droit avec une petite rayure sur la joue. Joli revers à l’usure superficielle bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine superficielle. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Apollon à droite avec baies dans la couronne.
Reverse
Reverse description : Bige galopant à droite, conduit par un aurige, tenant les rênes et le kentron ; au-dessus du bige, un canthare vu de face.
Reverse legend : FILIPPOU/ (PAR), (Filippou)
Reverse translation : (de Philippe).
Commentary
Semble de mêmes coins que l’exemplaire provenant de la vente Hess-leu du 6 décembre 1966, n° 247. Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire du British Museum (ADM. 2/ 97).
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS
(323-316 BC)
Coinage in the name and Philipp II 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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