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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2372328, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m with JA on this one.&nbsp; Over half of the coins marked &#039;Alexander&#039; were issued after his death by someone (king) or some city but some scholars have felt the need to attribute some of them to some specific ruler and change the politically correct ID used when the coin is sold.&nbsp; If that is appropriate all of the posthumous issues should be listed as coins of whoever issued them if that is known or marked &#039;unknown copying type of Alexander&#039; if it is not.&nbsp; Some of these coins are over a century after Alexander died but continue to be sold under his label.&nbsp; The above CNG link goes further suggesting it to be a coin of Philip III but &quot;Struck under Philotas or Philoxenos.&quot;&nbsp; I do not know if this is from Price (standard reference) or more recent revisions by someone else.&nbsp; I am not a Alexander collector (meaning I only have a half dozen) and can not justify buying Price let alone keeping up and have no idea on what evidence this particular coin got changed.&nbsp; More, I wonder when someone else will revise the series again and change attributions that are now accepted by those of us who will never understand the bases for the change.&nbsp; Don&#039;t get me wrong, I see nothing wrong with continuing scholarship but I do rather like the way Price handled the matter naming his book &quot;The Coinage in the Name of.....&quot; rather than just &quot;of&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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