Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Drachm In the name of Alexander III, Lampsakos
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
|---|---|
| Year | 323 BC - 317 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Zeus Aëtophoros enthroned left upon a throne, his body partially draped, holding a long sceptre in his left hand and an eagle perched on his outstretched right hand. The eagle faces left with wings partially spread. A serpent-entwined symbol (forepart of Pegasos or related Lampsakene control mark) appears in the lower left field, with a trident head visible beneath the throne as a mint control symbol. The Greek legend ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ runs downward along the right field. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ (Translation: Alexander (III, the Great)) |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Struck at Lampsakos on the southern shore of the Hellespont, this issue belongs to the enormous posthumous coinage produced in Alexander's name following his death in Babylon in 323 BC. Lampsakos was a strategically critical mint — controlling the crossing point between Europe and Asia — and continued striking in Alexander's name under the successive control of his warring generals during the early Diadochi period. Price 1375 is identifiable by its specific mint control marks, the details of which Marin Price catalogued from die studies in his 1991 corpus.