Live auction - bgr_928025 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS Statère d'or
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| Estimate : | 2 800 € |
| Price : | 1 905 € |
| Maximum bid : | 1 950 € |
| End of the sale : | 24 September 2024 14:16:07 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Statère d'or
Date: c. 320-316 AC.
Mint name / Town : Arados, Phénicie
Metal : gold
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 8,54 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait d’Athéna, bien venu à la frappe. Revers agréable. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée d'Athéna à droite, coiffée du casque corinthien à aigrette, orné d'un serpent sur l’accroche près de la visière ; les cheveux tombant sur la nuque en mèches mêlées.
Reverse
Reverse description : Niké debout à gauche, les ailes déployées, tenant de la main droite une couronne et de la gauche la stylis ; dans le champ à gauche, un foudre, au-dessus, un monogramme.
Reverse legend : BA-SILEWS/ FILIPPOU(DI).
Reverse translation : (d’Alexandre).
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS
(323-316 BC)
Coinage in the name of Philipp III and Alexander 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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