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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 7928027, member: 91461&quot;]Thrilled to have just received this rare beauty!</p><p>Though, the excellent portrait of a Helmeted Alexander is even more stunning in hand, I purchased this coin for the reverse. </p><p>It shows a man standing holding a spear in the ground. Oooooh.</p><p>Alexander is known to have claimed Persia as having been spear won by throwing a spear in the ground as soon as he reached those foreign shores. Talk about cocky! That was even before the battle at the Granicus!</p><p>Though, I&#039;ve found two other coins with this reverse, neither with the Helmeted Alexander obverse, and one saying emperor or Alexander and the other saying soldier, I propose this is indeed Alexander claiming his spear won territory of Persia:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370303[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Koinon of Macedon. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Tetrassarion (Bronze, 25 mm, 9.38 g, 6 h), time of Severus Alexander, 222-235. ΑΛЄΞΑΝΔΡ૪ Head of Alexander III &#039;the Great&#039; to right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with a griffin on the bowl. KOINON MA-KEDONWN NE-W, Emperor or Alexander standing front in military dress, looking right, possibly Alexander claiming Persia as spear won with spear in ground and parazonium. VF. Rare. No examples in Acsearch nor Wildwinds. Purchased from Savoca September 2021[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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