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Tetradrachm - Alexander III Tarsos
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 327 BC - 323 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Head of the deified Heracles facing right, youthful and beardless, wearing the Nemean lion skin headdress with the scalp drawn over the crown and the paws knotted at the throat. The portrait is rendered in fine high relief with carefully engraved curling hair visible beneath the lion skin, reflecting the accomplished die-cutting characteristic of the Tarsos mint. A dotted border frames the design. |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Aëtophoros enthroned left on a backless throne (diphros), his upper body nude and draped from the waist, holding an eagle with wings closed on his outstretched right hand and a long sceptre in his raised left hand. In the left field, a plough symbol appears as a mint control mark; beneath the throne, a bunch of grapes serves as a secondary control mark. The royal legend ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ runs to the right of the enthroned figure. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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