GC Le monete più attraenti di Alessandro Magno

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Tetradramma di Magydus (dal Price)

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Tetradramma di Sagalassus (dal Price)

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Tetradramma di Sillyum Price 2976 (http://coinproject.com/coin_detail.php?coin=300838)

Type:                                                                                                Greek

Region:                                                                                            MACEDONIAN KINGS

Issuer:                                                                                              Alexander III

Date Ruled:                                                                                    336-323 BC

Metal:                                                                                              Silver

Denomination:                                                                             Tetradrachm

Struck / Cast:                                                                                struck

Date Struck:                                                                                  221-211 BC

Diameter:                                                                                       31 mm

Weight:                                                                                           16.83 g

Die Axis:                                                                                          8 h

Obverse Description:                                                                 Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress

Reverse Legend:                                                                          ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ

Reverse Description:                                                                  Zeus seated left on throne with back, right leg drawn back, holding eagle in right hand and scepter in left; ΣΙΛ in left field

Mint:                                                                                                Sillyum

Primary Reference:                                                                    Price 2976

Photograph Credit:                                                                     Klassische Münzen

Source:                                                                                            www.vcoins.com

Grade:                                                                                             aVF

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Tetradramma di Sillyum Price 2977 (http://www.coinproject.com/coin_detail.php?coin=323866)

  

 

Type:                                                                                        Greek

Region:                                                                                    MACEDONIAN KINGS

Issuer:                                                                                      Alexander III

Date Ruled:                                                                            336-323 BC

Metal:                                                                                      Silver

Denomination:                                                                     Tetradrachm

Struck / Cast:                                                                         struck

Date Struck:                                                                           219/18 BC

Diameter:                                                                               30 mm

Weight:                                                                                   16.88 g

Die Axis:                                                                                  2 h

Obverse Description:                                                         Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress

Reverse Legend:                                                                  ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ

Reverse Description:                                                          Zeus seated left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, holding eagle in right hand and scepter in left; ΣΙΛ above Γ in left field

Mint:                                                                                        Sillyum

Primary Reference:                                                            Price 2977

Reference2:                                                                           Muller 1222

Photograph Credit:                                                             © Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Source:                                                                                    http://ww2.smb.museum/ikmk/object.php?id=18207213

Special Comments:                                                             (1) Accession 1875 Prokesch-Osten (2) Object number 18207213 . The photo is provided under Creative Commons. For further information go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/de/deed.en

Grade:                                                                                      aFine

Notes:                                                                                      Dated civic year 3

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Tetradramma di Sillyum Price 2978 (http://coinproject.com/coin_detail.php?coin=329490)

 

ID:                                                                                                     2978

Type:                                                                                                Greek

Region:                                                                                            MACEDONIAN KINGS

Issuer:                                                                                              Alexander III

Date Ruled:                                                                                    336-323 BC

Metal:                                                                                              Silver

Denomination:                                                                             Tetradrachm

Struck / Cast:                                                                                struck

Date Struck:                                                                                  218/17 BC

Diameter:                                                                                       32 mm

Weight:                                                                                           17.14 g

Obverse Description:                                                                 Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress

Reverse Legend:                                                                          ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ

Reverse Description:                                                                  Zeus seated left on throne with back, right leg drawn back, holding eagle in right hand and scepter in left; ΣΙΛ above Δ in left field

Mint:                                                                                                Sillyum

Primary Reference:                                                                    Price 2978

Reference2:                                                                                  Müller 1223

Photograph Credit:                                                                     © Bibliothèque nationale de France

Source:                                                                                            http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b103054534

Special Comments:                                                                     Source: R 4207 . The photo is provided under Creative Commons. For further information go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Grade:                                                                                             VF

 

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Tetradrammi della zecca di Tomi

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Tetradramma di Tomi Price 1211

Articolo in Ex nummis lux, Studies in Ancient Numismatics in Honour of Dimitar Draganov, Dilyana Boteva,Ed., Sofia 2017.

 

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Tetradramma di Tomi Price 1212 da http://www.coinproject.com/coin_detail.php?coin=296441

ID:                                                                            1212

Type:                                                                        Greek

Region:                                                                     MACEDONIAN KINGS

Issuer:                                                                      Alexander III

Date Ruled:                                                               336-323 BC

Metal:                                                                       Silver

Denomination:                                                          Tetradrachm

Struck / Cast:                                                            struck

Date Struck:                                                              c. 200 BC

Weight:                                                                     17.14 g

Obverse Description:                                                 Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress

Reverse Legend:                                                       ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ

Reverse Description:                                                 Zeus seated left on throne with back that has legs decorated with sphinxes, right leg drawn back, both feet on footstool, holding eagle in right hand and scepter in left; caps of the Dioskouroi in left field

Mint:                                                                         Tomi

Primary Reference:                                                   Price 1212

Photograph Credit:                                                    Classical Numismatic Group

Source:                                                                     http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=52903

Grade:                                                                      gVF

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Tetradramma di Tomi Price 1213 da http://www.coinproject.com/coin_detail.php?coin=323147

ID:                                                                            1213

Type:                                                                        Greek

Region:                                                                     MACEDONIAN KINGS

Issuer:                                                                      Alexander III

Date Ruled:                                                               336-323 BC

Metal:                                                                       Silver

Denomination:                                                          Tetradrachm

Struck / Cast:                                                            struck

Date Struck:                                                              c. 200 BC

Diameter:                                                                 30 mm

Weight:                                                                     16.01 g

Die Axis:                                                                   12 h

Obverse Description:                                                 Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress

Reverse Legend:                                                       ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ

Reverse Description:                                                 Zeus seated left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, holding eagle in right hand and scepter in left; star in outer left field, star in outer right field

Mint:                                                                         Tomi

Primary Reference:                                                   Price 1213

Photograph Credit:                                                    © American Numismatic Society

Source:                                                                     http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.36047

Special Comments:                                                   Identifier: 1944.100.36047 . The photo is provided under Creative Commons. For further information go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Grade:                                                                      gFine

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Siria e Fenicia

Accanto a Ierapoli Bambice, Laodice al Mare e Gabala, i cui tetradrammi sono stati oggetto dei quiz precedenti, vanno aggiunte le zecche di Antiochia di Siria (una tipolologia), Carne (quattro tipologie) e Simyra (una tipologia).

Antiochia non è solo in Caria ma anche una città della Turchia (Antiochia di Siria, turco Antakya) fondata dopo la battaglia di Ipso (301 a. C.) da Seleuco I Nicatore e sin dall’inizio capitale del nuovo regno di Siria, nonchè residenza abituale dei suoi re.

Tetradramma di Antiochia di Siria Price 3196.

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Tetradrammi della zecca di Carne (dal Price).

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Tetradramma di Carne Price 3429 (CNG 103).

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.40 g, 1h). Karne mint. Struck under Menes, circa 325/4-324/3 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field. Price 3429; Duyrat, Ateliers, p. 37, n. 44; Lanz 138, lot 306 (same obv. die); ANS 1944.100.35115 and 1944.100.35116 (both from same dies). VF, toned, light porosity, faint scratch in field on obverse. Extremely rare, particularly without royal title; only one in CoinArchives, two in Pella database.

From the collection of Will Gordon.

CNG 103, Lot: 120. Estimate $500. Sold for $550.

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Tetradramma di Carne Price 3430 (CNG 82).

Extremely Rare Karne Mint

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.14 g, 1h). Karne mint. Struck circa 324-320 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; KA monogram in left field. Price 3430 (same dies as illustration of 3430a). Good VF. Extremely rare mint.

CNG 82, 16 September 2009, Lot: 440. Estimate $2000. Sold For $5250.

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La città di Karne, un piccolo centro vicino di Arado, ha coniato due emissioni durante il periodo di Alessandro, entrambe con il monogramma civico KA nel campo a sinistra del rovescio. Le due emissioni si differenziano per la presenza del titolo regale e anche per lo stile complessivo dell'incisione. Le emissioni senza il titolo regale (Price 3429) hanno uno stile distinto, che è parallelo al Gruppo I-III di Duyrat ad Arado, circa 332-324 a.C., ma è molto probabilmente un parallelo al Gruppo III che ha il monogramma civico di Arado come marchio di controllo. Le emissioni di Karne con il titolo regale (Price 3430) hanno uno stile che mette direttamente in parallelo il grande Gruppo IV di Duyrat, circa 324-320 a.C. Karne ebbe anche due emissioni nel III secolo successivo, con date corrispondenti al 225/4 a.C., anch'esse in parallelo a quelle di Arado. Tutte queste emissioni sono estremamente rare. Solo due tetradrammi di Karne sono stati messi in asta nell'ultimo decennio. Il Lanz 138 (2007), lotto 306, è stato un esempio della prima emissione che realizzò 3600 euro (oltre 5000 USD all'epoca), mentre la moneta della Collezione Pittman (CNG 66 [2004], lotto 247), dello stesso tipo e condizione del pezzo attuale, ha realizzato un hammer di 2300 USD.

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Tetradramma di Carne Price 3431 (http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.70952)

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Tetradramma di Carne Price 3431 (Gemini XI).

Macedonian Kingdom. Alexander III The Great. 336-323 BC. Tetradrachm, 17.02g. (h). Carne, c. 225/4 BC. Obv: Head of Herakles right wearing lion-skin headdress. Rx: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ Zeus seated left on throne holding eagle on outstretched arm. Control marks: KAP (AP ligate) in left field above a palm tree and cornucopia. Phoenician letters under throne and in exergue. Prcie 3431. VF.
Price suggests that these rare Alexander types were issued by Seleucus III to finance expeditions to reconver Seleucid possessions in Asia Minor.

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Tetradramma della zecca di Simyra (dal Price).

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Simyra, citata in pubblicazioni inglesi anche come Simyra, Ṣimirra, Ṣumra, Sumura, Ṣimura, Zemar e Zimyra, era un importante centro commerciale della Fenici nella Siria attuale.

L’articolo di Leila Badre dal titolo Tell Kazel-Simyra: A Contribution to a Relative Chronological History in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research No. 343 (Aug. 2006), pp. 65-95 compendia i risultati archeologici di 18 campagne di scavi che hanno fatto lci sulle relazioni fra questa antica città e il Mediterraneo orientale.

L’articolo si può trovare in https://www.jstor.org/stable/25066965?seq=1

 

Non ho avuto modo di documentare il tetradramma Price 3527 emesso dalla zecca di Simyra per Seleuco III nel 230/29 a. C.

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L’Africa e l’Oriente

Accanto a Seleucea al Tigri, il cui tetradramma è stato oggetto dei quiz precedenti, vanno aggiunte le zecche di Babilonia (una tipologia), Gerrha (due tipologie) e Cirene (due tipologie).

Descrizione dal Price.

Tetradramma 3786 (foto Price).

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Tetradramma di Babilonia Price 3786 (CNG 412).

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.15 g, 6h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Uncertain mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ∆ in left field, ΘΕ below throne (above crossbar). SC 295; Price 3786; HGC 9, 10h. Good VF.

412, Lot: 256. Estimate $300. Sold for $1100. 

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Tetradramma di Gerrha Price 3957 (CNG 66).

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.08 gm). Gerrha mint. Autonomous issue, struck circa 250 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; Semitic "shem" in left field, trace of monogram under throne. Price 3957; Arnold-Biucchi, "Arabian Alexanders," in Mnemata: Papers in Memory of Nancy M. Waggoner, 6; Müller -. Good VF. Very rare mint, only 20 specimens recorded by Arnold-Biucchi. ($2000)
From the Tuck Pittman Collection.

Sale: CNG 66, 19 May 200419 May 2004, Lot: 256. Estimate $2000. Sold For $3000. 

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Tetradramma di Gerrha Price 3957 (Triton VII).

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.28 gm). Filaka/Ikaros mint. Autonomous issue, struck circa 250 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / , Zeus seated left, holding eagle in right hand, sceptre in left; "shin" in left field. Price 3957; Arnold-Biucchi, "Arabian Alexanders," in Mnemata: Papers in Memory of Nancy M. Waggoner, 6 (same obverse die); Müller -. EF. Very rare mint, only 24 specimens recorded by Arnold-Biucchi. ($2000)
Arnold-Biucchi's study of the Arabian Alexanders broke down the issues that had previously been attributed to a possible mint at Thadj/Gerrha, and proposed that they were the product of three mints (the two mentioned above, plus Bahrain/Tylos).

Sale: Triton VII, 12 January 2004, Lot: 141. Estimate $2000. Sold For $3500.

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Imitazione del tetradramma di Gerrha.

Extremely rare Tetradrachm from Gerrha, Arabia, c. 230-220 BC

This “Arabian Alexander” coin is an imitation of the types of Alexander III (the Great) of Macedon and is of considerable historic importance, one of seven known, the fifth of this variety without a backed-throne, and one of only two not in public collections.

The coin shows the head of Herakles right, wearing a lion headdress. On the reverse, Shams (the Arabian sun god taking the place of Zeus), wearing a tainia and chlamys, seated left on a backless throne, holding an eagle in his extended right hand, leaning with his left on a long staff; ΩBs.

More about this coin

Gerrha, was an ancient city of Arabia, on the west side of the Persian Gulf. Prior to Gerrha, the area belonged to the Dilmun civilization, which was conquered by the Assyrian Empire in 709 BC. Gerrha was the center of an Arab kingdom from approximately 650 BC to circa 300 AD.

The kingdom was attacked by the Antiochus III the Great in 205-204 BC, though it seems to have survived. It is currently unknown exactly when Gerrha fell, but the area was under Sassanid Persian control after 300 AD.

The site of Gerrha has been determined to have existed near or under the present fort of Uqair, Saudi Arabia, only 60 miles from the ancient burial grounds ofDilmun on the island of Bahrain.

(Source: numisbids.com)

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