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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 29962, member: 57463&quot;]1. Where did you look?&nbsp; I just search CoinArchives and Wildwinds and also did not find a coin like this.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; However, David Sear&#039;s <i>Greek Coins and their Values, vol 2</i> does list catalog number 6750 &quot;rev. serpent in field to l., and AΩ monogram beneath throne.&quot;&nbsp; Note that this is an issue of Phillip III Arrhideaus 323-317, not a lifetime issue of Alexander.&nbsp; Dealers often date any coin with a Herakles/Alexander by the lifetime of Alexander, regardless of when it was actually struck.&nbsp; Sellers typically do not invest the time in careful attribution that buyers do.&nbsp; There are other standard catalogs, including Martin J. Price&#039;s <i>Coins of the Macedonians</i>, as well as <i>Alexander&#039;s Drachm Mints</i>, a two-volume work by Margaret Thompson., which was only a beginning, never completed.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. The coinage of Alexander -- during his lifetime and thereafter, alike -- is broad, deep, and complex at the detail level.&nbsp; Even when the &quot;mintmark&quot; or other marks on the reverse seem familiar, we do not know what they mean.&nbsp; For instance, the Bee is often associated with Ephesus, but a Bee mintmark might mean something other than that the coin was struck at Ephesus.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. &quot;Buy the book before you buy the coin.&quot; So far, we do have an attribution, perhaps to Sear.&nbsp; That no coins like this appear on WildWinds or CoinArchives is not a condemnation, but neither does it instill confidence.&nbsp; Please don&#039;t tell us that the seller has 610 feedbacks and a 100% rating and lives in Bulgaria.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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