bgr_836205 - KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA - ALEXANDER IV Demi-unité
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Type : Demi-unité
Date: c. 320 AC.
Mint name / Town : Mylassa, Carie
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 3,96 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Patine marron-vert
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de gorgone (gorgoneion) placée au centre d'un bouclier macédonien.
Reverse
Reverse description : Casque macédonien ; dans le champ à gauche, un double hache (labrys).
Reverse legend : B-A/ K
Commentary
Ce type était parfois attribué à l’atelier de Milet. Il faut plutôt le restituer l’atelier de Mylassa en Carie.
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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