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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III
| Issuer | Perge (Pamphylia) |
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| Year | 203 BC - 202 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Aëtophoros enthroned left on a throne with cross-bar legs, his upper body nude and draped at the waist, extending his right arm to present a perched eagle and holding a long sceptre vertically in his left hand. The figure is rendered in fine Hellenistic style with muscular anatomical detail. To the left of the throne in the field, the control mark IΘ (numeral 19) appears, identifying the issue within the series. The Greek legend ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ runs downward along the right field, separated from the central design by a dotted border line. A ground line runs beneath the throne. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ IΘ |
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Perge's late Hellenistic Alexander-type tetradrachms occupy an awkward chronological position: struck well over a century after Alexander's death, they were produced not to honor the conqueror but because the Alexandrine type had become the default commercial currency of the eastern Mediterranean, trusted by merchants from Anatolia to the Levant regardless of who actually struck it. The city issued these under its own civic authority during a period when Pamphylia was cycling between Seleucid and Ptolemaic influence following the fragmentation of Antigonus's sphere.
Colin Perge#19 is among the better-documented die groupings for this mint. The 203–202 BC window corresponds closely to the run-up to the Battle of Panium.