bgr_844786 - MACEDONIA - KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS Tétradrachme
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Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 323-320 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amathonte, Chypre
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 16,73 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli portrait. Usure plus marquée au revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus aétophore, les jambes parallèles, assis à gauche sur un siège sans dossier, nu jusqu'à la ceinture, tenant un aigle posé sur sa main droite et un long sceptre bouleté de la gauche ; proue de navire à droite dans le champ à gauche.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU.
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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