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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3284132, member: 87809&quot;]May I jump in with a question that I have since I started to attribute and organize my dad&#039;s collection?</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you recognize a lifetime vs. posthumous Alexander tetradrachm by the position of Zeus&#039; legs? Parallel legs =&gt;&nbsp; it is a lifetime issue, crossed =&gt; it is posthumous?</p><p><br /></p><p>One of my tetradrachms has Zeus with parallel legs, but it is attributed as early posthumous. It is this one:</p><p>24 mm, 17.04 g;</p><p>according to numismatics.org: Amphipolis mint (uncertain) 320-317 BC, under the authority of Alexander III of Macedon (but he was already dead...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p>Obv.: Alexander the Great as Herakles facing right</p><p>Rev.: AΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟ(Υ) Zeus seated on a backless throne to left, himation around hips and legs, eagle in extended right hand and long scepter behind in left. To left, dolphin; below throne, monogram Π and O</p><p><br /></p><p>If it is posthumous then not always the legs are decisive?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]868313[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]868314[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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