Alexander's twin temples

I just received this marvelous coin and it is one of those type of coins that actually look better in hand and has a great green patina, where the pic in the CNG auction shows it grey.

Roman Provincial. MACEDON. Koinon of Macedonia. Pseudo-autonamous 222 AD to 249 AD
. Æ (27mm, 11.19 g, 6h). Beroea mint.
OBV: AΛEΞANΔPOC bust of Alexander the Great right, flowing hair.
REV: KOINMA KE ΔONΩN.B.NE Two tetrastyle temple façades; in field between, column surmounted by statue.
Unpublished in the standard references. VF, green surfaces, ragged edge, some smoothing and roughness.

CNG auction (415) had quite a large consignment of Provincial Macedonian coins and inside that a good range of Koinon of Macedonia (federation of Macedonian communities) commemorating Alexander the Great. So could not resist this Pseudo-autonomous issue in the date range of 222 AD Severus Alexander to 249 AD either
Gordian III or Philip I, Obverse with a good portrait of Alexander and Reverse two tetrastyle
temples seperated by a column with statue (probably Alexander) with inscription Koinan Macedon. B. NE the B. NE honouring the second neocourate temple. There isn't many of this
particular type so unpublished in the usual references.
POST YOUR ALEXANDER OR MACEDON COINS.

 

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Sweet coin!

 

Someone has been nibbling on your cookie! It doesn't interfere with the devices at all and your coin is a fantastic strike with great preservation compared to most of the Macedonian Koinon coins I've seen.

Here's my lowly example of a lofty type, Alexander taming Bucephalus. Oh how I'd love a better example. This one was from a large and mostly unattributed mixed lot. Maybe I should try cleaning it, although someone else has already done so and left unsightly scrapes.


Macedon Koinon
3rd century AD (in the time of Severus Alexander? Gordian III? Caracalla? This type was minted during several reigns)
AE27, 13.5 gm
Obv: (in theory...) AΛEΞANΔPOC; head of Alexander right (flowing hair? lion skin? helmeted?)
Rev: KOINON MAKEΔONΩN [NEsomething]; Alexander standing right, naked except for chlamys which flies behind him, taming his horse Bucephalus who rears left before him
Ref: SNG Copenhagen 1357?

 

Nice addition @Ancient Aussie. I really love that reverse.

 

Two for the price of one! I like it.

 

Thanks TIF, I think the metal composition was weak or porus in that area causing flan flaw wright through into Alexander's hair, but hey if your going to have a flan flaw the hairs a good place. I have not seen to many like yours great coin and very interesting.

 

very nice and in your field of arkitecture too ^^....

 

Beautiful profile! I like the dark patina.

 

This bronze coin of Alexander The Great was struck in Lampsakus between 310 and 301 BC. It weighs 4.1 g. Reverse shows Zeus seated, and there's the forepart of Pegasus on the lower part of left reverse. The coin is much better at hand. Among references, Price 1385 ; SNG Cop 886 ; Mueller 607 . But they all describe this coin as a silver drachm. Would mine, as a bronze, be considered as a variety or an off-metal strike, if such things exist in ancient coins ?

 

I'm not an expert on Greek coins, but is that silver near where Zeus holding bird, looks like a scrape on edge?

 

I asked myself the same question. I'll rub deeply all the edges of this coin, and then I shall see the result at day light tomorrow.

 

That is definitely a sweet coin! I am playing Assassin's Creed Origins lately and I am trudging through Alexandria. Reminds me of that game play. Beautiful temples in that coin and in the game....

Macedonian Kingdom: Antigonos I Monophthalmos (320-301 BCE) AR Tetradrachm, Uncertain mint in Syria or Phoenicia (Price 3575)

Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress
Rev: AΛEΞANΔPOY; Zeus enthroned facing left holding eagle and scepter, boar in left field

 

Fantastic reverse @Ancient Aussie!

 

Great TET, love the detail especially Zeus. Had a look at your collection today on Forum, absolutely amazing a bit of everything a standout Anton galley, you must have taken a fancy to Allectus galley's at one stage. Besides fantastic coins you have a bit of a museum in the making with your other antiques. Congrats on a terrific collection.

 

You're right. The coin is silver. It's a silver drachm. I'll post digital photos later.

 

Thanks for the complement @Ancient Aussie! I am glad you like it....

 

Here are the 2 digital photos that would depict silver and the forepart of Pegasus.

 

Nice Koinon! I love these things and need to acquire more. I have a little koin-non Mace-don myself...though I wish I could definitively say whom it was minted under. As you said, the metal composition was porous for some reason. Illustrated by my reverse of Alexander, aka hole in coin, taming Bucephalus! Haha


MACEDON.Koinon
Pseudo-autonomous. Time of
Gordian III (238-244). Ae.Obv:
ΑΛЄZΑΝΔΡΟV.
Head of Alexander the Great right
(as Hercules), wearing lion skin.Rev:
KOINON MAKЄΔONΩN NЄΩ.
Alexander on his horse, Bucephalus,
galloping right.
AMNG III 734.
Very fine. 11.9 g.24 mm.
Fomer SAVOCA

 

Even with the flan flaw it is still a nice coin.