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bgr_866850 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER Tétradrachme

MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - CASSANDER Tétradrachme VF
295.00 €(Approx. 309.75$ | 241.90£)
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Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 315-294 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amphipolis, Macédoine
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 16,99 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée à l’usure importante mais régulière. Portrait agréable. 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 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, une torche allumée ; sous le trône, bonnet des Dioscures surmonté d’un étoile à six rais ; trois globules à l’exergue.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDR.U/ L/ (MGR)
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).

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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