Tetradrachm - Alexander III Ake

Features

Issuer	Kingdom of Macedonia
King	Alexander III the Great (336 BC - 323 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	330 BC - 327 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	16.89 g
Diameter	25 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 182112
References	Price# 3248 Martin Jessop Price; 1991. The Coinage in Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus. Société suisse de numismatique = Schweizerische Numismatische Gesellschaft, British Museum (2 volumes). , Müller# 1427 Ludvig Müller; 1855. Numismatique d’Alexandre le Grand; Appendice les monnaies de Philippe II et III = Numismatics of Alexander the Great; Appendix the coins of Philip II and III. Imprimerie de Bianco Luno, Copenhagen, Denmark. , Demanhur# 3867-3895 Edward Theodore Newell; 1923. Alexander hoards: II Demanhur hoard / Volume 19. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States. , de Luynes# 1634-1635 Jean Babelon, Louis Ciani (ed.), Jules Florange (ed.). Catalogue de la collection de Luynes - monnaies grecques. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (4 volumes).

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Obverse

Head of youthful Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress

Reverse

Zeus seated left on ornamental throne, holding long, vertical scepter in his left hand and eagle standing right in his right. To left Phoenician letters ayin kaph

Scripts: Greek, Phoenician

Lettering: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ

Translation: Alexander (III, the Great)

Mint

Ptolemais, modern-day Acre, Israel

Mark

Price Monogram 1504

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (330 BC - 327 BC)

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