Live auction - bgr_434990 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ANTIGONUS MONOPHTALMUS Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 650 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 01 August 2017 14:07:20 |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 317-311 AC.
Mint name / Town : Babylonie, Babylone
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 17,15 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré, un peu court sur la légende au revers avec les grènetis visibles. Belle tête d’Héraklès. Joli revers à l’usure régulière. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés
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, mais la jambe gauche fléchie, assis à gauche sur un 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 ; dans le champ à gauche, un monogramme ; monogramme dans une couronne sous le trône.
Reverse legend : BAZILE[WS]/ ALEXANDR[OU]/ (AU).
Commentary
Nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente. Ce type est frappé à l’instigation d’Antigone le Borgne après avoir chassé Séleucus Ier de Babylone.
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ANTIGONUS MONOPHTALMUS
(323-301 BC)
Coinage in the name of Alexander III the Great type
After the death of Philip III in 316 BC, power was widely disputed between Olympias, mother of Alexander, Alexander IV and the Diadochi, in particular Cassander and Antigone. Antigone le Borgne appears on the political scene in 321 BC by crushing Eumenes, satrap of Cappadocia, who will be assassinated by Antigone in 316 BC. From the following year, Antigone enters into the fight against Seleucus, Ptolemy, Cassander and Lysimachus. Antigone occupied Syria and proclaimed the freedom of the Greek cities in 314 BC. Antigone and his son Demetrius were defeated in Gaza. A peace that excludes Seleucus is signed in 311 BC In 306, Demetrius wins the naval victory of Salamis in Cyprus. Antigone takes the title of King, imitated by the other Diadoques. Eventually Antigonus was defeated and killed at the Battle of Ipsos in 301 BC..
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