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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III, Amphipolis
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 280 BC - 270 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Obverse description | Head of Herakles facing right, wearing the Nemean lion scalp headdress, the skin knotted at the throat with the mane rendered in bold, flowing curls. The portrait is executed in fine Hellenistic style with strong facial modeling, prominent nose, and slightly parted lips. A beaded border frames the entire field. The type follows the canonical Alexander III coinage prototype, presenting the hero-god as the divine ancestor and patron of the Argead dynasty. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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By the 280s BC, Alexander had been dead for over four decades, yet Macedonian mints were still churning out coinage in his name — a deliberate political fiction maintained by successive rulers who understood the commercial and symbolic weight of the Alexander brand across the eastern Mediterranean. The Amphipolis mint was among the most prolific producers of these posthumous issues, its output sustaining trade networks that stretched from the Aegean into the Black Sea littoral.
Price 611 is distinguished from closely related dies by specific magistrate monograms that allow rough chronological placement within the Antigonus Gonatas period.