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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III, Kyzikos
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 280 BC - 275 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Youthful head of Herakles in right profile, enveloped in the scalp of the Nemean lion, with the beast's gaping jaws framing the crown of the head and its forepaws knotted at the throat. The facial features are rendered in a vigorous, idealized Hellenistic style, with full lips, a pronounced brow, and flowing locks of hair visible beneath the lion-skin headdress. A dotted border is visible along the coin's rim. |
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| Mint | Kyzikos |
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Struck at Kyzikos on the Propontis well after Alexander's death in 323 BC, this piece belongs to the extensive posthumous coinage produced by cities and successor rulers who found Alexander's name and types commercially indispensable for long-distance trade. Kyzikos was already a major monetary center — its electrum staters had circulated throughout the Greek world for generations — and the mint transitioned fluidly into striking Alexandrine silver to meet Aegean and Black Sea mercantile demand.
Price 1340 is a well-documented die pairing. The dating to 280–275 BC places production squarely in the turbulence following the Battle of Corupedium, when Lysimachus fell and western Anatolia briefly had no dominant master.