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Tetradrachm - Alexios
| Issuer | Akanthos |
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| Year | 380 BC - 350 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΚΑ-Ν-ΘΙΟ-Ν (Translation: Akanthos) |
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Akanthos, a Macedonian coastal colony on the Chalkidike peninsula, issued this tetradrachm during a period when the city was navigating difficult ground between Macedonian expansion under Perdiccas III and Amyntas III and the competing pressures of the Chalkidian League. The lion-and-bull type for which Akanthos is renowned predates this issue by roughly a century; by the mid-fourth century the mint's output was diminishing as Macedonian consolidation tightened regional autonomy.
HGC 3.1#391 documents the series as scarce. The name "Alexios" likely refers to a magistrate or moneyer, a relatively rare instance of named authority on Akanthian silver.