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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 8419800, member: 86498&quot;]Alexander III Av Stater Amphipolis 332-323 BC Obv,&nbsp; Head of Athena right wearing Corinthian style helmet In left field kantharus. Rv, Nike standing left holding wreath and stylis&nbsp; Price 168 Troxell 480 Series 2&nbsp;&nbsp; 8.61 grms 18 mm Photo from Peus Auktion 430[ATTACH=full]1493255[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;Some of you who have been on this thread know of my continual effort to study the coinage of Alexander the Great and my attempts at decerning which of the coins of his are lifetime. Up to now my efforts have centered on the silver coinage and have over time discussed my findings on the thread &quot;Saturday Night Free for All. However if the silver coinage is a headache the gold is even worse. One of the biggest problems it that the symbol such as the kantharus seen above can be found on staters minted from 332 BC to 290 BC and perhaps even later. More over the same symbols can be found on the gold and silver in the name of Philip II</p><p>Kassander Av Stater Amphipolis 300-290 BC Obv Head of Athena right wearing Corinthian style helmet Rv Nike standing left holding wreath and stylis To left trident Price 172 HGC 987 8.60 grms 18 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1493259[/ATTACH]&nbsp; The Trident was used from the inception of the stater from 332 BC to the end. When I bought this coin back in 2017 I thought I bought a lifetime stater but was quickly proven to be in error. This coin actually sparked my whole quest to study the coinage of Alexander. As the symbol of the kantharus is seen on both lifetime and posthumous coinage I elected to use Troxell&#039;s study on the coinage.</p><p>&nbsp;Back to my coin Back in April I was looking through the auction lots offered by Peus when I spotted this coin. I immediately went to my books and discovered that this coin was an obverse die match (possibly the reverse as well) to Troxell 480 O10/C4 . As the series one coins consists of 6 obverse dies my coin even though it is a group two is fairly early in the sequence. For some reason I am unable to access Peus on Biddr so I used an agent. Bidding was spirited but I won the coin. I got just last Friday</p><p>&nbsp;So what happened? Why the delay? Apparently one of the coins in the group had run afoul of some new German law. It was not mine, I could not find out much of anything so I really do not know. It may be some kind of &quot;Cultural Patrimony issue&quot; . Oh well living better through bureaucracy. However I got it and all is well[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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