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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8172567, member: 128351&quot;]I cannot identify precisely this obol :</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1427817[/ATTACH] </p><p>Alexander III, AR obol, AR 9 mm, 0.67 g.</p><p>Obv.: head of Herakles right wearing lion-skin</p><p>Rev.: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡοΥ, Zeus enthroned left resting on sceptre and holding eagle, in left field monogram [ATTACH=full]1427831[/ATTACH] (Price monogram 119) or is it [ATTACH=full]1427841[/ATTACH] (Price monogram 121)? </p><p><br /></p><p>This obol is not listed in Price or later literature about Alexander silver coinage, but it is not so rare: in ACSearch, with the search terms Alexander obol, I can find at least 8 similar obols attributed to Arados or Byblos, with various proposed dates, one of them ( <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1872542" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1872542" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1872542</a> ) being a possible obv. die link.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Price monogram 119 is for Arados, but it is only attested on 2nd c. BC tetradrachms. This obol, with Zeus&#039; parallel legs, is obviously older, of the 4th c. BC. Price monogram 121 is attested on tetradrachms from Byblos dated 330-320 (Price 3424), but on the obols the monogram looks much more like 119 than like 121. </p><p><br /></p><p>All suggestions are welcome. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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