weight 17,10gr. | silver Ø 26mm.
obv. Head of young Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress.
rev. Zeus Aëtophoros enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter,
Phrygian cap in inner left field, AΛEΞANΔPOY on right,
BAΣIΛEΩΣ on left, all within border of dots
Antipater (Antipatros) was born in 399 BC as the son of a Macedonian nobleman named Iolaus. He served as a soldier and diplomat under the kings Perdikkas III (365-360) and Philippos II (360-336) and seems to have developed a personal interest in the education of the latter′s crown prince Alexander. When the king was killed, Antipater and Philip′s trusted general Parmenion made sure that Alexander succeeded his father. Antipater arranged that the army greeted Alexander as king, probably played a role in the murder of a rival candidate, and Parmenion got rid of another candidate. In 334, Alexander joined Parmenion, leaving Antipater in charge of Macedonia and Greece. This role as regent was continued after the death of Alexander in 323 BC. Antipater′s main task was to hold the northern frontiers against hostile tribes and to keep order among the Greek states. He ruled Greece by cooperating with the League of Corinth but was unpopular because he supported oligarchic governments.
The settlement of the satrapies (provinces) of the Macedonian Empire by the new regent, Perdikkas, at Babylon in 323, immediately after Alexander′s death, left Antipater in control of Macedonia and Greece, though as former regent his status in relation to Perdikkas was not clearly defined. Antipater then took the side of the Macedonian generals Antigonos, Seleukos, and Ptolemaios, who were opposed to the claims of Perdikkas. By the settlement at Triparadisus, Syria (321), after Perdikkas′s death, Antipater became regent of the Macedonian Empire for the two kings: the intellectually disabled Philip III Arrhidaeus and the infant Alexander IV. Early in 319, Antipater and his pupil Philip Arridaeus went to Macedonia, where Antipater succumbed a few months later to old age. He was eighty years old. His death signaled the end of centralized authority in the empire. Antipater was succeeded by an old officer named Polyperchon, but he soon lost control of the situation, and was replaced by Antipater′s son Kassander. De facto Antipator had ruled over Macedon and Greece from 334 to 319 BC.
Price 112 | Müller 854 | SNG.Copenhagen 683-684 | HGC 3, - (cf. p.342/343)
some minor scratches
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