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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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| Reference(s) | Price#1965 , Müller#653 , SNG Berry#245 |
| Obverse description | Head of Herakles facing right, wearing the scalp of the Nemean lion as a headdress, the lion's mane rendered in bold relief with deeply engraved fur lines framing the hero's youthful, idealized features. The ear and profile are finely articulated, with the lion's paws tied at the neck. The field is plain, with no legend, and the entire design is enclosed within a beaded border typical of Alexandrine drachm coinage. |
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| Mint | Magnesia ad Maeandrum |
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Struck at Magnesia ad Maeandrum on the Maeander River in western Asia Minor, this issue belongs to the posthumous Alexander coinage produced after the king's death in 323 BC. Magnesia was one of dozens of mints that continued striking in Alexander's name under the authority of the successors — in this region, likely under the shifting control of Antigonos Monophthalmos during the Wars of the Diadochi. The mint's output helped sustain the monetary infrastructure of a fragmenting empire whose eastern conquests had flooded the Aegean world with bullion.
Price 1965 places this emission within a well-documented sequence for the mint.