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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III, Pella
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 275 BC - 270 BC |
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| Currency | Attic drachm |
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| Obverse description | Head of the deified Heracles facing right, wearing the Nemean lion scalp headdress, its paws knotted at the throat. The portrait displays the idealized heroic features traditionally associated with Alexander III, rendered in fine high relief with carefully detailed flowing locks of hair visible beneath and around the scalp. The field is plain and unlettered, the style consistent with posthumous Macedonian coinage of the early third century BC. |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Aetophoros enthroned left on a high-backed throne with dotted border, his body nude to the waist with drapery across his lap, extending his right arm forward to present a perched eagle and holding a long scepter upright in his left hand. In the left field, a Macedonian helmet above a stele or grounded symbol. Beneath the throne, the mint control marks ΚΙ above ΥΕ appear in the exergue area. The vertical legend ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ runs down the right field in Greek characters. |
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| Mint | Pella |
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