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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III
| Issuer | Perge (Pamphylia) |
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| Year | 201 BC - 200 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Obverse description | Youthful beardless head of Heracles in right-facing profile, wearing the Nemean lion skin headdress with the scalp tied beneath the chin and the forepaws knotted at the neck. The musculature of the lion's muzzle and jaw is rendered in high relief with fine engraving detail. The hair of Heracles emerges in thick curling locks from beneath the headdress, framing a strongly modelled face with a prominent brow and full lips characteristic of the Lysippan portrait type. The coin is struck on a broad, slightly irregular flan with well-centred, deeply struck devices. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Perge was one of several Pamphylian cities that continued striking posthumous Alexander tetradrachms well into the second century BC, long after the Macedonian kingdom itself had fragmented. This particular issue falls in the narrow window around 201–200 BC, when the region was being contested between the Seleucid and Ptolemaic spheres following the Fifth Syrian War — a period of political turbulence that paradoxically encouraged local mints to assert continuity by invoking Alexander's name and authority.
The Mektepini hoard, which provided the die study underlying the primary reference for this type, was instrumental in sequencing the Perge coinage chronologically.