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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2465792, member: 51347&quot;]My Screen name:</p><p><br /></p><p>Alegandron... When I was in University, I was INSPIRED to ancient History (which I already loved since Jr. Hi days).&nbsp; I took several courses from the late Professor J Rufus Fears, watching the classroom go from 30 people to 850 people in my last course.&nbsp; He was that good and popular.&nbsp; I took a semester of Alexander the Great.&nbsp; Our university had a wonderful and nationally ranked foreign language school.&nbsp; The question of why Macedonians were considered &quot;Barbarians&quot; to the Greeks, until Philip II taught them the WAYS of the Makedonon.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I was told that their accent made the &#039;X&#039; a &#039;G&#039; sound, and a lower-case Y at the end of the Greek Alexandroy is a &#039;n&#039;.&nbsp; Hence Alegandron.&nbsp; Been using it for email (not available then), or other use as Alegandron since the late 70&#039;s...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]517745[/ATTACH]</p><p>Kingdom of Macedon</p><p>Philip II 382-336 BCE (Reign 359-336 BCE)</p><p>AR Tetradrachm.</p><p>Mint: Pella, lifetime issue, struck circa 353-349 BC.</p><p>25 mm. 14.4 g</p><p>Obv: Laureate head of Zeus right Rev: ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ,</p><p>Rev: Philip on horseback left, wearing kausia and raising right hand; spearhead below, star below horse&#039;s raised foreleg.</p><p>Le Rider 102 (D58/R82); SNG ANS 357</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]517746[/ATTACH]</p><p>Kingdom of Makedonon</p><p>Alexander III (MEGAS) 336-323 BCE</p><p>AR Tetradrachm</p><p>24.5mm, 16.9g</p><p>Lifetime Issue</p><p>Obv: Herakles</p><p>Rev: Zeus on big-ball throne, holding Eagle, staff; very faint trident in field l</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]517747[/ATTACH]</p><p>BABALONIA, Babylon</p><p>AR Tetradrachm / Stater (or Dishekel)</p><p>Minted ca. 323-328 B.C.</p><p>24 mm, 16.3g</p><p>Obv: Ba’al seated left holding scepter</p><p>Rev: Lion walking left, control mark Г above. (Control mark was minted during Alexander III Lifetime)</p><p>Ref: Ref: BMC Arabia XXII no.1</p><p>Comment: &quot;This type was discussed by Martin Price in his article &quot;Circulation at Babylon in 323 BC,&quot; in the book &quot;Mnemata: Papers in Memory of Nancy M. Waggoner.&quot; He asserts that a reengraved die clearly shows the &quot;lion staters&quot; with gamma followed the ones with delta. &quot;They are probably shekels on the local standard.&quot; (page 67). He dates them to the lifetime of Alexander, because they were present in a hoard with deposition dated to 323/2. He doesn&#039;t give the earliest possible date explicitly, but mentions that Mazaeus was governor until 328 and issued coins, so I infer Price would put them at or after 328. So you can say &quot;Struck 323 or before, under Alexander the Great.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>And a bunch of AE&#039;s, Diadochi, etc. around Alexander&#039;s immediate impact on the World![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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