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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III
| Issuer | Parion (Mysia) |
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| Year | 280 BC - 275 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Aëtophoros enthroned left on a low backless throne, his nude torso turned three-quarters, a large eagle perched on his outstretched right hand and a long sceptre held vertically in his raised left hand. In the left field, a bull's head facing as a mint control symbol; beneath the throne, a monogram serving as a secondary control mark. The Greek legend ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ runs along the right field, identifying the issue as struck in the name of Alexander III. |
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Parion, a Greek colony on the Propontis coast, was one of the later mints to adopt the posthumous Alexander coinage, striking into the 270s BC well after Macedonian political authority had fragmented following the Wars of the Diadochi. Price 1350 is a relatively scarce variety within the broader posthumous series. The city's own civic coinage tradition was well established before these issues began, which makes the adoption of the Alexander type here a calculated political alignment rather than administrative habit.