bgr_708555 - MACEDONIA - KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 336-323 AC.
Mint name / Town : Tarse, Cilicie
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 5,34 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, centré. Joli revers ainsi qu’un beau portrait. Patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d’Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté ; un caducée vertical devant le visage.
Reverse
Reverse description : Légende entre une massue et un goryte avec son arc ; au-dessus, un caducée couché ; au-dessous, une petite étoile.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU.
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).
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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