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Tetradrachm - Cassander In the name of Alexander III; Uranopolis
| Uitgever | Kingdom of Macedonia |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 317 BC - 298 BC |
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| Valuta | Attic drachm |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Zeus Aetophoros enthroned left on a low throne (diphros), his outstretched right hand supporting an eagle with closed wings, his left hand grasping a long sceptre. The principal legend ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ runs in the right field. In the left field, a star on cone (symbol of Uranopolis) appears above the control letter X, with the additional control mark Π placed beneath the throne. The composition follows the canonical Alexander type reverse established by Lysippos. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ X Π |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Uranopolis — "City of Heaven" — was founded by Alexarchus, the eccentric brother of Cassander, who reportedly invented his own language and styled himself a citizen of the cosmos rather than Macedonia. Coinage struck there in Alexander's name during Cassander's regency served a dual political purpose: maintaining the fiction of Argead continuity while consolidating Cassander's grip on a fractious kingdom still nominally loyal to a dead conqueror's memory. Alexarchus himself is one of antiquity's more bizarre footnotes — Athenaeus preserves fragments of his impenetrable correspondence, which contemporaries apparently found unintelligible.