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Please help identify this seemingly Phillip II or Alexander the Great coin size of a dime weighs 1/10 of a Troy oz

 

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1/10 Troy ounce

 

If I'm not mistaken, the size of it would make the denomination a drachm. And based on the legs of zeus being crossed, leads me to believe it is not a lifetime issue of A the G.

 

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Here are your images cropped and joined. For future reference, you'll get more views and responses if we don't have to click to open images and if the images aren't 10% coin and 90% background.



As Justin noted, the size is consistent with the denomination of drachm and it is in the style of Alexander the Great (a posthumous issue). I don't know how accurate your scale is but I'm guessing not very if it displayed the weight as 0.1 ozt . That's ~3.1 gm, which would be suspiciously lighter than expected for a drachm. It's hard to say much about authenticity based on images alone (and small images at that). Also, I am not an expert though nor did I scroll through the large number of known fakes in various databases. Do you collect ancient coins? How did you come to own this coin? Did you buy it and if so, from whom? Was it a gift?

Drachms of Alex III exist in massive numbers with a dizzying array of posthumous coins, such as yours, struck in his name. The reverse control marks (spear behind Zeus, barley grain below throne) are consistent with it being an issue struck in Kolophon, under Philip III, 323-319 BCE.

Here's a recently sold example which matches your control marks. The price reflects its higher grade-- usually these posthumous ATG drachms sell for less.

https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=943&category=19422&lot=901216


Kings of Macedon
Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. Drachm (Silver, 17mm, 4.25 g 12), Kolophon, struck under Philip III, 323-319. Head of Herakles to right with lion skin headdress. Rev. AΛEΞANΔΡOΥ Zeus seated left on backless throne, holding eagle in his right hand and long scepter with his left; below throne, wheat grains; to right, lance-head upwards. Price 1751. Fresh and attractive. Extremely fine. From a northern European collection.

The same coin sold in a CNG auction a few years earlier than the Nomos sale. It's always interesting to see different photos of the same coin, so here is that CNG image.




Here's a nice pile of about a thousand ATG drachms which were sent to NGC recently (image by Barry Murphy; see this thread).

 

@Riley keogan: welcome to Ancients. Post a larger image of both sides of the coin and any relevant information i.e., weight, size etc.