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E-auction 212-138526 - bgr_428135 - KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - ALEXANDER IV Demi-unité

KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - ALEXANDER IV Demi-unité AU
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Estimate : 150 €
Price : 43 €
Maximum bid : 55 €
End of the sale : 08 May 2017 14:01:00
bidders : 9 bidders
Type : Demi-unité
Date: c. 323-310 AC.
Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain, Asie Mineure
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,77 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau bouclier. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine verte

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d’Héraklès de trois quarts de face à droite placée au centre d'un bouclier macédonien.

Reverse


Reverse description : Casque macédonien ; dans le champ à droite, un kyrikeion (caducée) ; monogramme dans le champ à gauche.
Reverse legend : [B - A]/ (HAR).

Commentary


Poids léger. Au droit dans le médaillon, certains y voient le gorgoneion, d’autres une tête d’Héraklès de trois quarts de face à droite. Sur notre exemplaire, nous semblons deviner, la léonté nouée sous le cou. Ce type est aujourd’hui attribué à Alexandre IV, le fils d’Alexandre le Grand, assassiné avec sa mère Roxane par Cassandre vers 310 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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