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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 8413744, member: 86498"][USER=116907]@Mammothtooth[/USER] Your coin does appear to be from the mint of Lampsakos and it looks to be Price 1412 and dated to 310-301 BC. I have one as well</p><p>Lysimachos Ar Drachm Chios 290-275 BC In the name and types of Alexander III Obv. Beardless head of Herakles in lions skin headdress. Rv Zeus Aetophoros seated left. Price 2318 4.18 grms 20 mm Photo by W. Hansen</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1492443[/ATTACH]</p><p>The drachms minted in the name and types of Alexander appear to be struck primarily in Asia Minor. This is a bit puzzling. However looking at the vast number produced in this region one can only surmise that this may have been the result of a mass recoinage. Records do show that the siglos was devalued and that could have been all the impetus needed to convert that coinage to drachms of Attic weight. This may have been initiated by Alexander late in his reign however it was carried on by his successors for some decades afterward.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 8413744, member: 86498"][USER=116907]@Mammothtooth[/USER] Your coin does appear to be from the mint of Lampsakos and it looks to be Price 1412 and dated to 310-301 BC. I have one as well Lysimachos Ar Drachm Chios 290-275 BC In the name and types of Alexander III Obv. Beardless head of Herakles in lions skin headdress. Rv Zeus Aetophoros seated left. Price 2318 4.18 grms 20 mm Photo by W. Hansen [ATTACH=full]1492443[/ATTACH] The drachms minted in the name and types of Alexander appear to be struck primarily in Asia Minor. This is a bit puzzling. However looking at the vast number produced in this region one can only surmise that this may have been the result of a mass recoinage. Records do show that the siglos was devalued and that could have been all the impetus needed to convert that coinage to drachms of Attic weight. This may have been initiated by Alexander late in his reign however it was carried on by his successors for some decades afterward.[/QUOTE]
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