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Message:: [QUOTE="TIF, post: 2522350, member: 56859"]I am not comfortable saying with certainty that it is either genuine or a forgery, but in general agree with Sallent's statement.  The coin is rather underweight for a tetradrachm. If authentic, it generally matches a very late lifetime or early posthumous issue struck in Tarsus, 323-317 BCE.  On the Wildwinds page for Alexander III of Macedon, look at Price 3038. Wildwinds can be cumbersome to search.  It is very helpful in cases like this to use your browser's "find on page" search function.  For the OP coin, once on the Alexander III Wildwinds page I used the search term "Nike" in my browser's webpage search.  Nike isn't a common control mark but there are many dozens of entries for the AV staters, so you have to tab through all of those but it is still more efficient than scrolling through all of the entries on that page.  That is how I found your coin's attribution after only a couple of minutes of searching. Uncrossed legs on Zeus can also be seen on some posthumous issues so it isn't a guarantee of a given coin being issued in his lifetime.[/QUOTE]