v26_0049 - MACEDONIA - REGNO DI MACEDONIA - ANTIGONOS DOSON Tétradrachme

MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - ANTIGONUS DOSON

(229-221 BC)

Antigone Doson is a cousin of Demetrius II (239-229 AC.) whom he succeeded, Philip V (221-179 AC.) his son, being too young. Allied with Antiochus Hierax (246-227 AC.), brother and unfortunate competitor of Seleucus II, Antigonus won a brilliant naval victory over the Ptolemaic fleet and its Carian and Rhodian allies in 227 BC off the coast of the island. of Andros in the Cyclades. Allied to the Achaean league, Antigone Doson, won an important victory and definitively crushed the Spartan power at the Battle of Sellasia in 222 BC..