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<p>[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 8344403, member: 118780"]Thanks! Since you're far more knowledgeable in this space, I'm going to attribute it for now to Lihyan. This works for my purposes, since I'd been considering a Lihyan example as it was Alexander the Great's next target. In fact, the army was scheduled to depart for the attack when Alexander was on his death bed.</p><p><br /></p><p>It does seem like someone literally copied the die for both sides, thus reversing everything on the coin. I wonder, given the wide variation even among attributed coins, whether many of these were minted without official oversight.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 8344403, member: 118780"]Thanks! Since you're far more knowledgeable in this space, I'm going to attribute it for now to Lihyan. This works for my purposes, since I'd been considering a Lihyan example as it was Alexander the Great's next target. In fact, the army was scheduled to depart for the attack when Alexander was on his death bed. It does seem like someone literally copied the die for both sides, thus reversing everything on the coin. I wonder, given the wide variation even among attributed coins, whether many of these were minted without official oversight.[/QUOTE]
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