Live auction - bgr_555595 - MACEDONIA - KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 1 000 € |
| Price : | 670 € |
| Maximum bid : | 700 € |
| End of the sale : | 03 December 2019 14:15:50 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 323-320 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amphipolis, Macédoine
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 17,31 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire, sur un flan épais et bien centré. Magnifique tête d’Héraklès ainsi qu’un très beau revers, bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise de collection
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 de la main gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, un casque macédonien.
Reverse legend : BASI-LEWS/ ALEXANDROU.
Commentary
Ce type est posthume, l’un des premiers frappés après la mort du conquérant à Babylone en juin 323 avant J.-C. H. A. Troxell dans son corpus (NS. 21) a relevé un total de 455 tétradrachmes avec 97 coins sur une estimation totale de 109 coins de droit.
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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