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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III, Sikyon
| Issuer | Mint of Sikyon |
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| Year | 225 BC - 215 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Aëtophoros enthroned left on a stool-throne, his draped torso turned slightly forward; he holds an eagle on his outstretched right hand and a long sceptre upright in his left. In the left field, the Sikyonian mint letter Σ appears above a standing youth facing left, raising a tainia (fillet) overhead with both hands, serving as the city's identifying control symbol. A monogram appears below the throne. The whole composition follows the canonical Alexandrine reverse type. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ Σ (Translation: Alexander (III, the Great)) |
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Sikyon was not a primary mint for Alexanders — the city's output of posthumous tetradrachms was modest and concentrated within a narrow window, making Price 712 a genuinely scarce variety within the broader posthumous series. By the time this coin was struck, Alexander had been dead for roughly a century, and the continued use of his types was a commercial convention rather than any political statement, easing trade across a Greek world still operating on Macedonian weight standards.
Noe's classification of Sikyonian issues remains the foundational reference for this mint's Alexander coinage, and the die linkage work he established places Price 712 among the later emissions, consistent with the city's declining monetary output before the Achaean League absorbed its civic coinage functions entirely.