Alexander's twin temples

fantastic coin..

 

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Stunning

 

The kingdoms mentioned in the Greece after the death of Alexander the great


TEMNOS (Aéolis Temnos) - 188/187 BC/JC
There is very little information on this city, which was located on a hill placed above the right bank of the transferred already time to Pliny the elder this city no longer existed, but from time to time we mention it for example on the back of a me Medal of Empress Ottacilla Severa or these words are written THMNEITΩN EPMOC translated by the Hermus of the inhabitants of Temnos, as she would eventually be rebuilt after the earthquake under Tiberius, one of the iconic figures of this city would be the rhetorician Hermagoras.

 

Here is one that came today It is much like the OP coin:


Koinon Macedonia
Bust of Alexander the Great, AΛEΞANΔPOV
KOINON
MA
KEΔONΩN
B NEΩ (for second Necorate)
Two hexastyle temples (without the column and statue of the coin in the original post)
The auction said "Time of Gordian III" which is an attribution from AMNG in 1906
Die Antike Munzen Nord-Griechenlands II 810, very similar to 806 too. Reverse on plate V.10.

Plate V.9 (pictured below) has a column and statue like the OP coin, but the temples are viewed from an angle which is a major difference. Its text coin number is 786.

I have AMNG in hardcover and read German. It is a very difficult book to use. It has over 520 examples of this Alexander/KOINON coinage, with only a very small fraction of the reverses pictured and not in the order in the text. So, when looking at the text there are often a couple of pages of described coins between plated coins and the plated coins are not in sequence. For example, around my coin the text sequence is plate IV.15, V.13, IV.19, V.10, V.15, etc. After I found the ID for V.10, it took me five minutes to find it for V.9. I would not be willing to swear the OP coin is not in there somewhere.



That is not so bad if you are going from description to plate (except very few are plated), but if you are going from plated coin to its description it is not easy to know where to look among the 89 pages of descriptions. My coin is not V.10 because of the dot in the pediment which makes it 810, not 806. You might expect 807-809 to be similar, but no, 808 is Athena seated left! I have not yet divined the principles of its detailed organization.

 

Cool coin @Ancient Aussie ! I do not have many architectural type coins, but yours is very nice. I tend towards animals, mythical creatures, etc...

I have a bunch of Alexander coins. How about something earlier?


Makedon Perdikkos II 454-413 BC AR heavy tetrobol 2-4g 15mm 12h Makedon mint 437-431 BC horseman holding two spears prancing Raymond 184ff SNG ANS 47ff


Makedon Amyntas II 395-393 BCE Æ12 2.0g Aigai or Pella mint Hd Pan - Forepart wolf chewing bone SNG Alpha Bank 179-80 Very Rare


This one is the Grandpappy of Alexander III

Makedon Amyntas III 393-369 BC Herakles lion skin Eagle Serpent SNG ANS 100ff

 

Hmmm... Koinon of Macedonia... please correct me if I am wrong. I do not focus here, so I am a novice:


RR Macedon occupation Alexander - Club Coin chest Quaestor Chair wreath Aesillas Quaestor AR Tet Thessalonika Mint BC 90-70


RR Prv Macedon Amphipolis AE Semis 187-131 BC Zeus Prow giraffe shape SNG Cop 69


RR Prv Macedon Province 168-166 BC Tamios Quaestor Athena Cow - Eeyore


RR Roman Occupied Macedonia Gaius Publilius, Questor Amphipolis Mint As AE26 As ROMA Griffin MAKEDONWN TAMIOV GAIOV POPAILIOV oak wreath BC 148-146 SNG COP 1318

 

Very nice, love the patina on your coin gives it great eye appeal. I agree it drove me nuts trying to find a reference to my coin as I was sure I seen one a couple of years ago in a vcoin store, I did however find this http://www.coinproject.com/coin_detail.php?coin=299654
but is only 21mm. What do you think?

 

Fantastic collection of Macedon's, all great coins with an historical background behind them.

 

I think the "21 mm" is a typo. It says 12.1 grams which is right for the 27 mm type and too heavy for a 21 mm coin. So, I think you found it. The page mentions "Lindgren II, 1389 variant" and 1389 is like mine (above) and its image is 29 mm across. I think someone wrote "27" and someone else read "21".

 

Agree more than likely a typo, I'm confident to attribute it as Lingren II, 1389 var. The reverse in the Price & Trell page 214 dates it a bit earlier in the time of Severus Alexander but with only a few years difference between the end of his reign and Gordies start it's feasible that it could be either. Thanks for the help.

 

It is timely that we show coins of a koinon:
https://www.si.com/more-sports/2018...g-word-koinonia-scripps-national-spelling-bee
This Koinon of Macedonia shows two Olympic prize baskets.

 

I only have 1 ( in rough shape ) but it does have a different Obverse to those posted so far.
AMNG 773variety

 

Nice helmeted Alexander, and his horse Bucephalus, great variety.