Live auction - bgr_457805 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 1 200 € |
| Price : | 650 € |
| Maximum bid : | 650 € |
| End of the sale : | 12 December 2017 14:08:05 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 323-317 AC.
Mint name / Town : Salamine, Chypre
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 17,05 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large bien centré avec une partie du grènetis visible au droit. Belle tête d’Héraklès de haut relief. Revers finement détaillé. Belle patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
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 gouvernail.
Reverse legend : BASILEWS/ FILIPPOU/ T.
Reverse translation : (du roi Philippe).
Commentary
Notre exemplaire présente une grande ressemblance avec l’exemplaire du British Museum (MP. 129a, pl. 116).
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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