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Didrachm - Alexander I Balas Tyre
| Issuer | Seleucid Empire |
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| Year | 150 BC - 146 BC |
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| Diameter | 21 mm |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and draped bust of Alexander I Balas facing right, rendered in fine Hellenistic style within a dotted border. The king is portrayed with youthful idealized features, curling hair bound by a royal diadem with flowing ends visible behind the neck. The bust is draped at the shoulder, and the portrait fills the field with confident high relief typical of Seleucid royal coinage struck at Tyre. |
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| Reverse description | Eagle standing left on the prow of a galley, with a palm frond over its right shoulder, rendered in the Phoenician civic tradition characteristic of Tyrian coinage. To the left of the eagle, a Macedonian club appears alongside the Tyrian mint mark ΤΥΡ. In the right field, the Seleucid era date ςΞΡ (year 166 SE, corresponding to 147/146 BC) is inscribed above a monogram ΗΡ. The reverse legend ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ curves around the design. |
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| Mint | ΤΥΡ Tyre, Phoenicia, modern-day Tyre, Lebanon |
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