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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III
| Issuer | Perge (Pamphylia) |
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| Year | 206 BC - 205 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Aëtophoros seated left on a throne, his body nude to the waist with drapery over the lower limbs, holding a long sceptre upright in his left hand and extending his right hand to present a perched eagle. The Greek legend ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ runs vertically along the right field. The control mark ΙΕ appears in the left field beside the figure. A helmet appears beneath the throne as an additional control symbol. The composition follows the standard posthumous Alexander type as struck at Perge. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Perge's brief window of autonomous silver coinage in the early second century BC coincided with the fragmentation of Seleucid authority across southern Anatolia following Antiochus III's western campaigns. The city struck in Alexander's name — decades after his death — because the posthumous tetradrachm had become the dominant trade currency of the eastern Mediterranean, and local commerce simply demanded it. Issuing under a dead king's authority was a monetary convenience, not a political statement.
The Colin Perge corpus identifies this as issue 16, distinguished by its specific magistrate monogram combination and die alignment from the handful of other Pergean Alexander types.