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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III
| Issuer | Perge (Pamphylia) |
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| Year | 202 BC - 201 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Aëtophoros enthroned to the left upon a low stool-throne, his upper body nude, a himation draped across his lap and legs. His outstretched right hand supports an eagle, while his left hand holds a long upright sceptre. The Greek legend ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ runs along the right field. In the left field, the letter Kappa serves as a regnal or civic date marker, with a sphinx depicted below it as a civic control symbol of Perge. The design is enclosed within a dotted border. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ K |
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Perge's civic mint struck Alexander-type tetradrachms under its own authority during the late third and early second centuries BC, long after the Macedonian empire had fragmented. These posthumous issues were a monetary convenience — the Alexander type remained the dominant trade currency across the eastern Mediterranean, and Pamphylian cities needed coinage compatible with regional commerce regardless of who actually held political power. By 202 BC, Perge was operating under Seleucid influence following Antiochus III's western campaigns, though the city retained enough civic autonomy to maintain its own mint output.
Pozzi 933 places this issue within a well-documented sequence; Colin's Perge corpus narrows the chronology further through die linkage studies.