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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Macedonia| > |Macedonian Kings| > GS72006
Macedonian Kingdom, Antigonus I Monophthalmus, 323 - 301 B.C., In the Name of Alexander the Great
|Macedonian| |Kings|, |Macedonian| |Kingdom,| |Antigonus| |I| |Monophthalmus,| |323| |-| |301| |B.C.,| |In| |the| |Name| |of| |Alexander| |the| |Great|, Struck by Antigonus I Monophthalmus ("the One-eyed") as strategos of Asia (320 - 306 B.C.) or as king (306 - 301 B.C.). With the arrival of Alexander the Great, Teos gained its freedom from Persian rule. In 319 B.C., it came under the rule of the Strategos of Asia, Antigonus I Monophthalmos (the one-eyed). Antigonus declared himself King in 306. In 302 B.C., Troas fell to Lysimachus' general, Prepelaos. Lysimachus moved some of Troas' citizens to the newly built city of Ephesus.
GS72006. Silver drachm, Price 2290, Müller Alexander 766, SNG Munchen 596, SNG Cop 899, SNG Alpha Bank -, VF, nice style and strike, some corrosion, Ionia, Teos (near Sigacik, Turkey) mint, weight 3.954g, maximum diameter 19.2mm, die axis 225o, c. 310 - 301 B.C.; obverse head of Herakles right, wearing Nemean Lion skin, scalp over head, forepaws tied at neck; reverse AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus enthroned left, right leg drawn back, eagle in right, long scepter vertical behind in left, ΔΗ monogram in left field, ΠP monogram below throne; SOLD











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