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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 4422659, member: 80804&quot;]Obv: Head of Alexander* as young Hercules, right, wearing lion-skin headdress, paws knotted at throat.</p><p>Rx: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ vertically downwards to right of Zeus Aetophoros (&quot;eagle-bearing&quot; in Greek) enthroned left, right leg drawn back, no footstool, holding eagle and resting hand on scepter; beneath seat, AB in monogram; cross-like object** in field to left.</p><p><br /></p><p>* I&#039;m not trying to start a war here. There are some folks who hold very strong feelings about whether or not the portrait of Hercules on Alexander-era coins was meant to represent Alexander. In the absence of any original documentation about the engravers&#039; intentions, I prefer to think it is an idealized portrait of Alexander. Some vehemently disagree.</p><p><br /></p><p>** I have never before encountered this specific field mark while cataloging Alexander-era coins. I&#039;m not sure what else to call it.</p><p><br /></p><p>You don&#039;t really need to own Price in paper edition, or have access to a pdf of Price, to determine the place and date of origin of Alexander-types on the basis of fieldmarkings and style. </p><p>Both Coinproject - <a href="http://www.coinproject.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinproject.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinproject.com</a> - </p><p>and wildwinds - <a href="http://www.wildwinds.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com</a> - list huge numbers of the variants with photographs and descriptions; and typically include attribution to the Price system and/or SNG alpha bank (and typically several other references as well.)</p><p>It can be a little tedious running through several hundred photos in search of a match by pattern recognition, but it can be done - and it&#039;s a really good educational exercise to look at so many varieties within the overall type, too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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