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!
Hemidrachm - Alexander
| Issuer | Pherai |
|---|---|
| Year | 369 BC - 358 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 | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Irregular |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Pherai under the tyrants Jason and then Alexander was one of the most militarily aggressive poleis in fourth-century Thessaly. Alexander of Pherai — infamous for his cruelty, eventually assassinated by his own brothers-in-law in 358 BC — issued coinage that functioned partly as a statement of regional dominance during a period when Pherai was locked in bitter conflict with the Thessalian League and its Boeotian backers. Pelopidas died fighting Alexander at Cynoscephalae in 364 BC, a measure of how seriously Thebes took the threat.
BCD 1312 is a well-documented specimen from the landmark Pherai section of the BCD Thessaly collection, auctioned by Nomos in 2011.