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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III, Corinth
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 310 BC - 290 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of the deified Heracles in right profile, wearing the Nemean lion-skin headdress, the scalp knotted at the throat with the forepaws draped over the neck. The facial features are youthful and idealized, widely understood as a veiled portrait of Alexander the Great. The flan is struck with fine high-relief modeling, encircled by a beaded border. |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Aetophoros enthroned left on a backless throne, his outstretched right hand supporting an eagle with wings closed, his left hand grasping a long sceptre. In the left field, Nike advancing right, holding a wreath in her extended right hand and a palm branch in her left. A control monogram appears below the throne. The legend ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ runs along the right field, reading downward. |
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Struck at Corinth in the decades following Alexander's death in 323 BC, this issue belongs to the enormous posthumous coinage produced across the former Macedonian empire by successor governors and city authorities who retained Alexander's types to preserve monetary credibility. Corinth was a strategically pivotal mint — controlled at various points by Cassander and the Antigonids during the Wars of the Diadochi — and the precise issuing authority for many Corinthian posthumous Alexanders remains disputed among specialists.
Price 675 places this emission within a well-documented Corinthian sequence distinguished by specific monogram and control mark combinations.