Live auction - bgr_372081 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 1 200 € |
| Price : | 790 € |
| Maximum bid : | 1 006 € |
| End of the sale : | 15 December 2015 14:09:17 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 320-317 AC.
Mint name / Town : Babylone, Babylonie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 17,14 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan large et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très belle tête d’Héraklès. Très joli revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine grise superficielle avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Argenor en 2001 et de la collection François Charrin
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore, les jambes croisées, assis à gauche sur siège avec dossier, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, tenant un aigle posé sur sa main droite et un long sceptre bouleté de la gauche ; les pieds reposent sur un marchepied.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ FILIPPOU/ M/ LU
Reverse translation : (du roi Philippe).
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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