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E-auction 374-286405 - bgr_594277 - KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - ALEXANDER IV Demi-unité

KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - ALEXANDER IV Demi-unité VF
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Estimate : 50 €
Price : 18 €
Maximum bid : 20 €
End of the sale : 15 June 2020 14:04:30
bidders : 6 bidders
Type : Demi-unité
Date: c. 323-315 AC.
Mint name / Town : Salamine, Chypre
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,68 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais à l’usure importante, identifiable. Patine verte granuleuse
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de gorgone placée au centre d'un bouclier macédonien.

Reverse


Reverse description : Casque macédonien ; dans le champ à gauche, un caducée.
Reverse legend : B-A.

Commentary


Dans la nouvelle édition de l’ouvrage d’O. Hoover (HGCS 3/1, n° 958) ce type est attribué à Alexandre IV, le fils posthume d’Alexandre le Grand et de Roxane. Ce type particulier attribué à Salamine de Chypre aurait été frappé sous l’autorité de Nicocréon, dernier roi de Salamine (331-311 avant J.-C..

Historical background


KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - ALEXANDER IV

(323 - 310/309 BC)

Alexandre is the son of Alexandre III and Roxane. On the death of his father, the Macedonian nobles preferred his uncle, half-brother of Alexander, Philippe Arrhidée, however simple-minded. After the assassination of the latter, the son of Alexandre and his mother will be victims of the appetites of the epigones who want to maintain the fiction of the Empire while wanting to seize the reality of power. Refugees with Cassandre, Roxane and Alexandre IV were finally assassinated in 310-309 BC..

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