Diobol - Alexander III Amphipolis

Features

Issuer Kingdom of Macedonia
King Alexander III the Great (336 BC - 323 BC)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 336 BC - 323 BC
Value Diobol (⅓)
Currency Drachm
Composition Silver
Weight 1.21 g
Diameter 11 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
197035
References Price# 145,
Martin Jessop Price; 1991. The Coinage in Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus / Volume 1. Introduction and Catalogue : A British Museum Catalogue. British Museum - Swiss Numismatic Society, London, United Kingdom - Zürich, Switzerland.
And 1 more volumes.
HGC 3.1# 901 var,
Oliver D. Hoover; 2016. The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series / Volume 3.1. Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbors / Part 1. Macedon, Illyria, and Epeiros : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania - London, United Kingdom.
SNG Copenhagen# 693 var
Niels Breitenstein, Willy Schwabacher; 1942. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum / Volume 1. Italy, Part 1 : Etruria - Campania. Einar Munksgaard, Copenhagen, Denmark.
And 43 more volumes.

Obverse

Young head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress.

Reverse

Eagle standing right on thunderbolt, head left.

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ

Translation: Alexander (III, the Great)

Mint

Amphipolis, Macedonia, modern-day Amfipoli, Greece

Comments

Unpublished in the standard references, for the same type in Drachm denomination, cf. Price 145; SNG Copenhagen 693 and HGC 3-901. For Diobol, cf. Price 16 and HGC 3-906.

The coin in the main image (1.21g, 11mm, 12h, Near Extremely Fine):
◦ Auctioned by Roma Numismatics Ltd, Auction XVII, 28 March 2019, Lot 392. Sold for 2,200 GBP;

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (336 BC - 323 BC) 

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