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Drachm In the name of Alexander III, Magnesia ad Maeandrum
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 319 BC - 305 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Head of Herakles facing right, wearing the Nemean lion scalp headdress, the jaws of the pelt framing his face and the forepaws knotted at his throat. The portrait is rendered in fine Lysippan style with strong facial modeling, curling hair visible beneath the scalp, and a smooth, unlettered field. No legend appears on the obverse. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Struck at Magnesia ad Maeandrum on the Maeander River in western Asia Minor, this issue falls within the turbulent decades following Alexander's death in 323 BC — the Diadochi wars, during which his generals carved the empire into competing successor states. Magnesia was an active mint precisely because the region changed hands repeatedly, with Antigonus Monophthalmus controlling much of Asia Minor through most of this period and requiring coinage to pay troops in the field.
Price 1973 places this among a well-documented but not abundant group from the mint. The civic magistrate's name embedded in the issue helps anchor its sequence within the broader posthumous Alexander series.