Crossed another one off the list!

@Ancientnoob Very nice, and from the capital as well!

 

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Silver Drachm
Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin
Zeus Aëtophoros seated left holding eagle and sceptre; monogram in left field I in P in left field
Mint: Miletos (325-323 BC)
Wt./Size/Axis: 4.24g / 17mm / -

 

Terrific pick-up MM !!

And wonderful Posts everyone...

TIF, that's absolutely gorgeous and it screams AJ LOL

My examples are a bit more modest and while Alexander, appear to be posthumous.. with the possible exception of the bronze. An upgrade in the near future.

 

Thanks MZ, Pish.
Is that a pentagram below Zeus?

I am surprised that @stevex6 and @Alegandron have not posted yet? They have some nice Alexander's, if I remember correctly.

 

ALEXANDER III
AR Drachm
OBVERSE: Head of Herakles right in lionskin headdress
REVERSE: ALEXANDROU, Zeus Aetophoros seated left, holding eagle and sceptre. Forepart of Pegasos left in left field, X on W monogram beneath throne
Struck at Abydos 325-323 BC
4.2g, 17mm
Price 1505

 

Yep, I recently posted it on another thread...and that worn 'protome' on the left appears to be a forepart of a lion.

Steve and TIF have some wonderful examples.... Damn their eyes

 

@Bing We are coin brothers!!!

 

I will post later. Got a few that I can show...

Was up in Yankee-land for the past several days! resting now as I got in late last nite. However, am gonna take my wife to Martian this afternoon. Great movie. I saw it a couple weeks ago...but she hasn't seen it yet.

 

I found this in a tube of dimes. Is it real? The weight and diameter are accurate

 

A 'tube' of dimes??? I guess you placed it in the flip with the attributions???

At first glance, it certainly looks legit to me---but I can be fooled about half the time..

The most I ever find in a 'roll' of dimes are a few Canadian types that Steve must be stashing there to get back at all of us lower 48 types

 

@capthank I don't like that one at all. In my opinion it is a fake.

 

The styling looks modern/fake to me. Hard to comment on the fabric due to the scanned small images. The weight is accurate for a drachm but I doubt this coin is authentic. The "find spot" makes it all the more suspicious.



It looks like a match to this fake. Perhaps there are better images of the type somewhere... I'll keep looking.

 

Hmmm, The more I look at it, rotating the image etc, the more it looks off to me as well....regardless of where it was found.

 

Some of my favorite images!
From the House of the Faun at Pompeii
Alexander vs Darius at the Battle of Issus.


A modern recreation of it!

 

My god, TIF => AJ's ex-coin is fricken awesome (congrats)

You make a very sweet Bond girl (Gold Toner => that's supposed to be read in the same way as Gold Finger)



Again => congrats on that sweet addition (that's a fricken franchise coin in my books!!)

 

Lifetime Tet:

MACEDONIAN KINGDOM
Alexander III (The Great)
AR Tetradrachm
Lifetime issue 325-323 B.C.
17.06 grams, 26 mm diameter
Obv: Head of young Herakles facing right
clad in lion’s skin
Rev: Zeus enthroned facing left with legs
parallel holding eagle and scepter.
Serpent in a bowl to left,
AΛΕΞΑΝΑΡΟΥ to right
Grade: gVF to aEF with attractive old
toning and lustrous details in the
protected areas. Slightly off center
on small flan
Other: Coveted lifetime issue coin with
snake-in-a-bowl monogram mint mark.
Possibly from the 'Pella', or 'Sardes' mint.
Similar to Sear 6724, Price 3665 Variant.
From private sale June 2013.

 

Wow!
That's a nice one!

 

Too pooped to toss up a bunch of Alexandroy III drachmae, but I promised to post... I will offer up my Lifetime Tet:

I love this pig...


Kingdom of Makedonon
Alexandroy III 336 - June-323 BCE (b. July-356 BCE)
Son of the brilliant Philip II, cut down before his time...
AR Tetradrachm
24.5mm x 6.38mm thick, 16.9g
Lifetime Issue
Obv: Herakles (Alexander's visage)
Rev: Zeus on big-balled throne, eagle and staff

 

@Alegandron Nice coin! What mint is it from?

So who do you think "really" killed him?

 

Personally, I think Olympias arranged it. She was a freak show...