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Message:: [QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 3508496, member: 86498"]The current reference on this coinage is " Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire " by Catharine Lorber. Your coin looks like  her reference number 19 and is dated from 322-321 B.C. There has been a great deal of confusion over this issue of coins. When Price wrote his book the conventional wisdom was that Alexander started to mint his coinage immediately after his accession to the throne. His book sparked a great deal of new research on the coinage of Alexander. One now has to refer to a number of works done by people including Troxell and Le Rider. Now it is believed that the "Alexander" coinage did not start until after the Battle of Issus, and even then the changeover was more gradual with many mints not starting until after 325 B.C.  Initially it was believed that this group of coins initiated the "crossed legs" style which is why Price placed this issue during Alexander's lifetime, but that honor now goes to the mint of Sidon which has a dated issue which places it in 325 B.C. New works always starts new research[ATTACH=full]930506[/ATTACH] . I got one of these coins as well. I personally think they are among the most beautiful of all of the issues struck in the name of Alexander[/QUOTE]