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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 6455851, member: 91461&quot;]In today&#039;s Obols auction I saw a coin I recognized that wasn&#039;t from someone else&#039;s collection<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>It was VERY similar (pretty sure it&#039;s the same type) to my own.</p><p>Mine and the description:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1257545[/ATTACH]</p><p>Alexander I</p><p><br /></p><p>498-454 BC. AR Tetrobol (15mm, 1.97 g). Horse right / Quadripartite incuse square. Raymond pl. V, b; SNG ANS 20.</p><p>Ex Savoca</p><p><br /></p><p>And the one that is not mine from today&#039;s auction:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1257546[/ATTACH]</p><p>KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander I, 498-454 BC. Tetrobol (Silver, 14.5 mm, 1.83 g), Aigai, probably before 480/79. Horse standing to right. Rev. Quadripartite linear square with a kerykeion at the center; all within a shallow incuse square. BMC 6 = Raymond pl. V, b. SNG ANS -. SNG Munich 8. Extremely rare. Light porosity, scratches on reverse, otherwise, fine.</p><p>From the Trausnitz Collection, acquired prior to 2007.</p><p><br /></p><p>Raymond concluded that this rare issue was most likely struck before Alexander&#039;s escape from Persian influence in 480/79, yet the fine style of the incuse is unlike his earliest coinage. Thus, she was unable to place it securely within the established chronology of Alexander&#039;s coinage. Likewise the low weight - which corresponds precisely to the weight of a triobol on the Macedonian octadrachm standard (1.83 g) - of this and the other fractional issues she illustrates leaves little room for a certain identification of the denomination. This coin could be a very light-weight tetrobol or it could equally be a triobol. Because of the significant wear and the likelihood of internal crystallization of this piece, we have called it a tetrobol, assuming that when it was freshly minted it was probably close to the theoretical weight of 2.18 g on the Macedonian tetradrachm standard.</p><p><br /></p><p>Very cool description of Raymond&#039;s analysis of the type... especially the very specific dating of 480/79 previous to his escape from Persian influence<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Though, mine is slightly heavier by a hair&#039;s breath, it is clearly the same denomination.</p><p>But what I don&#039;t see is Kerry nor her keion&#039;s</p><p>&quot;Quadripartite linear square with a <b>kerykeion</b> at the center; all within a shallow incuse square.&quot;</p><p>I see no caduceus. I see a small circle in the top left sector on both. Do you?</p><p>Here&#039;s 2 of what we&#039;re looking for:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1257560[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Did Ryro just use the flimsiest of pretexts to post another Macedonian shield coin? You bet your sweet cheeks I did<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>To enjoy the type, time and the namesake of Alexander III The Great, let&#039;s remember a few things.</p><p>Alexander I claimed descent from the Argive family that claimed its descent from Herakles himself!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":jimlad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> As, Alexander the Great would a couple centuries later.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1257563[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Herakles would kick himself later for having posed for his statue on the coldest day Greece had seen for a millennia)</p><p><br /></p><p>Macedon was one of the nearest kinda Greek states to Persia and essentially had to/decided to work with at the start of the Peloponnesian war.</p><p>Alexander I gave his sister up to marry a Persian general.</p><p>However, in 479 Alexander would turn on the Persian Achaemenids by giving Athens key strategic information on the eve of the battle of Plataea!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1257565[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Any corrections, other stories of the man, his coins of course, thoughts on the Obols description and anything else early Macedon are appreciated[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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