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Live auction - bgr_439804 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP II Tétradrachme

MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP II Tétradrachme AU
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Estimate : 1 500 €
Price : 1 015 €
Maximum bid : 1 352 €
End of the sale : 12 September 2017 14:10:50
bidders : 3 bidders
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 342/341 - 329/328 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amphipolis, Macédoine
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 14,43 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Zeus. Joli revers de style fin. Accompagné d’une très jolie patine de médaillier avec des reflets dorés et irisés
Predigree :
Cet exemplaireprovient du Numismatic Circular 80 janvier 1972, p.9 n° 16

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite.

Reverse


Reverse description : Cavalier au pas à droite, tenant une palme de la main droite ; le cheval lève l'antérieur à droite ; entre les jambes du cheval, une abeille stylisée et une poupe de navire entre les antérieurs.
Reverse legend : FILIP-POU.
Reverse translation : (de Philippe).

Commentary


Cet exemplaire est reproduit dans l’ouvrage de G. Le Rider, p. 118, n° 494a, pl. 43 (A/ 240 - R/ 494). C’est aussi l’unique exemplaire signalé avec cette combinaison de coins.

Historical background


MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP II

(359-336 BC)

Philip of Macedon was the brother of Perdiccas III (365-359 AC.), both sons of Amyntas III (381-369 AC.). Their older brother Alexander II was assassinated by Ptolemy who received the regency for Perdiccas III and Philip II (369-365 AC.). Ptolemy was finally killed by Philip II in 365 BC while his brother died fighting the Illyrians six years later. Philip II began the conquest of the Greek world from 357 BC He was the indefatigable enemy of Athens and Demosthenes. He seized Amphipolis in 357 BC and took twenty years to conquer Greece. The victory of Chéronée crowned his work in 338 before J. - C. He was assassinated in 336 before J. - C., at the instigation of his first wife, Olympias, who was afraid to see her son Alexander, dispossessed of the throne of Macedonia after the birth of a boy from a second marriage.

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