AV 1/3 Stater 334-332 BC v. Chr. LUCANIA, METAPONTION (METAPONTUM) - KING ALEXANDER I OF MOLOSSIA - circa 334-332 BC cf. NAC Auction 124, lot 29 (in nearly vz : SFR 46.000+ 23%)
cf. NAC Auction 124, lot 29 (in nearly vz : SFR 46.000+ 23%) | Abkürzungen
Alexander Molossos
13,00 mm
weight 2,63gr. | gold Ø 13mm. obv. Head of Demeter right, wearing stephane and pendant earring rev. Barley stalk, bird right on leaf to right, METAΠON to left
Gold coins of Magna Graecia are scarce and were only minted for exceptional occasions, such as paying mercenaries. Most likely this rare issue was struck when Alexander Molossos, the Epirote King, helped Metapontion against the Lucanians and Bruttians.
Alexander Molossos was born as a son of king Neoptolemumos II of Epirus. When Neoptolemus died in circa 357 BC, his son Alexander was only a child and his brother Arrybas became the sole king. In circa 350 BC, Alexander was brought to the court of Philip II of Macedon in order to protect him. In 342/3 in his late 20s, Philip made him king of Epirus, after dethroning his uncle Arybbas. When Olympias, wife of Philip II of Macedon and sister of Alexander Molossos, was repudiated by her husband in 337 BC, she went to her brother, and endeavoured to induce him to make war on Philip. Alexander, however, declined the contest, and formed a second alliance with Philip by agreeing to marry the daughter of Philip (Alexander′s niece) Cleopatra. During the wedding in 336 BC, Philip was assassinated by Pausanias of Orestis.
In 334 BC, Alexander I, at the request of the Greek colony of Taras (in Magna Graecia), crossed over into Italy, to aid them in battle against several Italic tribes, including the Lucanians and Bruttii. After a victory over the Samnites and Lucanians near Paestum in 332 BC, he made a treaty with the Romans. He then took Heraclea from the Lucanians, and Terina and Sipontum from the Bruttii. Through the treachery of some Lucanian exiles, he was compelled to engage under unfavourable circumstances in the Battle of Pandosia and was killed by a Lucanian. He left a son, Neoptolemus, and a daughter, Cadmea. Molossus was Alexander the Great′s uncle and Olympia′s (mother of Alexander the Great) brother. He was also an uncle of Pyrrhus of Epirus.
cf. NAC Auction 124, lot 29 (in nearly xf : SFR 46.000 + 23%)
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