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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3180010, member: 44316&quot;]Alexander the Great had a major influence on the world, including the world of numismatics. He minted tetradrachms in massive numbers and they are still common today. After he died in 323 BC some of his successors continued the same basic design and even continued his name in the legend AΛEΞANΔPOY down the right.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an example from long after he died:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]819322[/ATTACH]</p><p>33-32 mm. 16.00 grams.</p><p>Struck at the small city of Temnos in Aeolis (about 20 km north of Smyrna, in Asia Minor). Dated to c. 188-170 BC by Martin Price.</p><p>Heracles head right in lion-skin headdress.</p><p>Zeus seated left, legs crossed, holding eagle on long vertical scepter, AΛEΞANΔPOY down the right, oenochne (similar to an amphora) and vine-tendril to the left [symbols of the city, which is known from other types of Temnos]</p><p>EXENI/KOΣ below forearm,&nbsp; ΓEI/TAΣ below seat.</p><p>During Alexander&#039;s lifetime his tetradrachms were 25-27 mm and thick. Later tetradrachms throughout Asia became broader and thinner. This one, at 33-32 mm is very broad. If you like big coins, this one is easy to like.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sear Greek 4226 (with these exact control marks)</p><p>Price 1690. There were 57 of this exact type in the Tel Kotchek hoard. Tel Kotchek is on the border between Syria and Iraq on the railroad route between Istanbul and Baghdad. The hoard was published in 1973 by H. Seyrig in a reference I don&#039;t have. Price also notes other hoards from Syria have coins of Temnos. He notes, &quot;A large quantity of this coinage and that of Alabanda [a very similar posthumous type, but minted in Caria] reached Syria.... There is as yet no clear explanation for this.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Show us some posthumous Alexanders and tell us their stories if you know them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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