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Stater - Alexander
| Issuer | Kings of Epeiros |
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| Year | 350 BC - 330 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Zeus Dodonaios facing right, rendered in fine archaic-classical style with flowing beard and hair adorned with an oak wreath, characteristic of the sanctuary at Dodona. The portrait displays expressive detail in the treatment of the curling locks and beard. A small gamma (Γ) control mark appears below the neck truncation in the lower field. |
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| Mintage | ND (350 BC - 330 BC) |
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Epeirote royal coinage of this period sits in an awkward historiographical gap — the kingdom was real and monetarily active, but its fourth-century issues are frequently misattributed to Macedon or to federal Epeirote authority. This stater likely predates the reign of Alexander I of Epeiros, who crossed into Italy in 334 BC at the invitation of Tarentum and was killed at Pandosia around 330 BC, never returning. The Dewing 1438 attribution places it within a tightly defined group.