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Stater In the name of Alexander III, Tyre
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 305 BC - 290 BC |
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| Weight | 8.59 g |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, portrayed with finely rendered flowing locks of hair cascading beneath a Corinthian helmet surmounted by a prominent crested plume. The helmet is pushed back to reveal the goddess's idealized facial features, rendered in the high-relief Hellenistic style characteristic of the Macedonian royal mint tradition. The modelling of the cheek, jaw, and eye is naturalistic and accomplished, reflecting the skilled die-cutters employed under Alexander's monetary reforms. The field is smooth and unadorned, with the flan exhibiting the characteristic irregular outline of a hand-struck ancient coin. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Struck at Tyre following Alexander's death, this issue belongs to the long posthumous series produced by his successors who continued using his types to maintain commercial credibility across the eastern Mediterranean. Tyre itself had been razed and its population enslaved or sold by Alexander in 332 BC after a seven-month siege — one of the most brutal episodes of his entire campaign. That the mint reopened under Macedonian authority within a generation, striking gold in his name, is a detail the catalog references alone cannot convey.
Price 3530 places this among the later Tyrian output, when Ptolemy I controlled the city.