Live auction - bgr_623626 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 980 € |
| Price : | 600 € |
| Maximum bid : | 600 € |
| End of the sale : | 08 December 2020 14:10:15 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 300-290 AC.
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Uranopolis
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 17,03 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire, centré des deux côtés. Superbe portrait d’Héraklès. Joli revers. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
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 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 ; dans le champ à gauche, un cône surmonté d’un astre à huit rayons ; couronne sous le trône.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU/ C
Commentary
Cet exemplaire manque dans le remarquable ouvrage de M. J. Price (MP. 509-523). L’auteur a assimilé deux variétés différentes (MP. 514 et 519). En revanche dans le trésor de Meydancikkale, G. Le Rider a bien isolé cette variété de monogrammes sous le numéro 370 (pl. 16).
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER
(319-297 BC)
Coinage in the name of Alexander III the Great type
Cassander, the first of the Epigones, succeeded his father, Antipater, in 319 BC. He allied himself in 315 with Seleucus, Ptolemy and Lysimachus to fight Antigone and Demetrius. In 311 BC, he killed Roxane and Alexander IV. In 305 BC, he assumed the title of king. Cassander triumphed over Antigone at Ipsos where the latter died. He was killed in 297 BC with his son Philip IV and it was his son Antigone Gonatas who finally succeeded him in 283 BC on the death of Demetrius Poliorcetes.
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