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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III, Temnos
| Issuer | Mint of Temnos |
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| Year | 200 BC |
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| Weight | 16.73 g |
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| Obverse description | Youthful heroic effigy of Herakles facing right, wearing the Nemean lion scalp headdress, the paws knotted beneath the chin. The portrait is rendered in the mature Hellenistic style, with softly modeled facial features, a pronounced nose, and finely engraved curling hair visible beneath the lion skin. The field is plain, with no legend. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ (Translation: Alexander (III, the Great)) |
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Temnos was a small Aeolian city on the Hermos River, and its coinage in Alexander's name dates to the late third or early second century BC — long after Alexander's death in 323 BC. The persistence of these posthumous issues reflects the commercial utility of the Alexandrine standard across the eastern Aegean, not any political allegiance to a successor dynasty. Temnos operated with considerable autonomy under this arrangement.
Price 1665 is documented but not among the more frequently encountered Temnian issues, the city's output having been modest relative to the major Aegean mints.