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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3095618, member: 44316&quot;]Here is one that came today It is much like the OP coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]782138[/ATTACH]</p><p>Koinon Macedonia</p><p>Bust of Alexander the Great, AΛEΞANΔPOV</p><p>KOINON</p><p>MA</p><p>KEΔONΩN</p><p>B NEΩ&nbsp; (for second Necorate)</p><p>Two hexastyle temples&nbsp; (without the column and statue of the coin in the original post)</p><p>The auction said &quot;Time of Gordian III&quot; which is an attribution from AMNG in 1906</p><p>Die Antike Munzen Nord-Griechenlands II 810, very similar to 806 too. Reverse on plate V.10.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plate V.9 (pictured below) has a column and statue like the OP coin, but the temples are viewed from an angle which is a major difference. Its text coin number is 786.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have AMNG in hardcover and read German. It is a very difficult book to use. It has over 520 examples of this Alexander/KOINON coinage, with only a very small fraction of the reverses pictured and not in the order in the text. So, when looking at the text there are often a couple of pages of described coins between plated coins and the plated coins are not in sequence. For example, around my coin the text sequence is plate IV.15, V.13, IV.19, V.10, V.15, etc. After I found the ID for V.10, it took me five minutes to find it for V.9. I would not be willing to swear the OP coin is not in there somewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]782151[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>That is not so bad if you are going from description to plate (except very few are plated), but if you are going from plated coin to its description it is not easy to know where to look among the 89 pages of descriptions. My coin is not V.10 because of the dot in the pediment which makes it 810, not 806. You might expect 807-809 to be similar, but no, 808 is Athena seated left! I have not yet divined the principles of its detailed organization.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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