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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III, Aspendus
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 187 BC - 186 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Aëtophoros enthroned to the left upon a low stool-throne, his draped figure rendered with authority; his outstretched right hand supports an eagle, while his left hand grasps a tall sceptre. In the left field, the city ethnic AΣ (for Aspendus) appears above the regnal or civic date KC. A spearhead is placed in the exergue as an additional control symbol. The reverse legend ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ runs along the upper right field, identifying the coin as struck in the name of Alexander the Great. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Struck at Aspendus in Pamphylia roughly a century and a half after Alexander's death, this is a posthumous issue produced under Seleucid administration — not a Macedonian royal mint. By the late 180s BC, the Seleucid empire was hemorrhaging territory following Antiochus III's catastrophic defeat by Rome at Magnesia in 190 BC, and local mints across Asia Minor were pressed back into service partly to finance the punishing indemnity imposed by the Treaty of Apamea. Price 2907 is identifiable by its specific monogram combination placing it firmly within the Aspendus sequence.