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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 24649870, member: 110226&quot;]That&#039;s a very nice, well centered example of a very desirable coin!&nbsp; There certainly seems to be die matches for your coin and the other two, with the third from similar but a different reverse die.&nbsp; Congrats!</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the argument over whether or not the portrait on the obverse of Alexander III&#039;s coinage is actually the old boy, that is something that I think will be debated for a very long time.&nbsp; Unlike the Roman imperatorial coinage, where there is usually plenty of examples of emperors and empresses in the form of statuary and busts, in the case of Alexander III there is much less to go by, aside from some busts and that famous fresco showing him charging in the Battle of Gaugamela against Darius III. </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess the best assumption to take is that the portrait on the obverse is an artistic interpretation of Alexander III wearing the lion headdress of Hercules.&nbsp; This motif, by the way, was established before Alexander&#039;s time, in Sicily, at Kamarina.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sicily, Kamarina, tetradrachm, 425-405 BC.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1569486[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m really not well versed on the coinage of Alexander III and his successors. This vast coinage is a specialty in itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my lone Lysimachos tetradrachm, purchased back in the early 90s at a local coin shop.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kings of Thrace, Lysimachos (306-281 BC)</p><p>Amphipolis Mint, circa 288-281 BC</p><p>Tetradrachm</p><p>Obverse: Head of the deified Alexander the Great facing right, wearing the horn of Ammon.</p><p>Reverse: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ – ΛΥΣΙΜΑXΟΥ, Athena enthroned left, holding Nike, shield decorated with Medusa’s head resting against base of throne, spear resting behind; torch to inner left, bee to outer right.</p><p>(Thompson 187; Müller 445a).</p><p>Cleaned VF</p><p>16.9 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1569485[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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