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Tetradrachm - Alexander III Damascus
| Uitgever | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Jaar | 330 BC - 320 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Youthful head of Herakles facing right, portrayed with idealized features in the Lysippan tradition, wearing the Nemean lion skin headdress with the scalp drawn over the crown and the forepaws knotted at the throat. The finely modeled face displays a slightly open mouth and strong jaw, rendered in high relief against a flat field. The design is enclosed within a beaded border. The portrait carries the characteristic idealized likeness associated with Alexander III. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΔΑ (Translation: (in the name and type of) Alexander (III, the Great)) |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Damascus came under Macedonian control following Alexander's decisive victory at Issus in 333 BC, and the city's mint was activated shortly after to help finance the ongoing eastern campaign. Moving vast quantities of Persian silver — much of it seized from Darius III's war chest at Damascus itself — into standardized coinage was a logistical and political priority, not an afterthought.
Price 3205 is attributable to the Damascus mint by specific die linkage and style analysis. Martin Price's 1991 corpus remains the standard reference for separating the output of individual mints in this period, a task complicated by Alexander's deliberate policy of issuing uniform coinage across dozens of operating mints simultaneously.