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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 94569, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Alexander as Herakles</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Any coin with Alexander as Herakles on it was struck under the authority of Alexander or his successors.&nbsp; Alexander issued the coin you pictured, but did so in the name of his father, Phillip.&nbsp; He did that with several issues, both gold and silver.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You can tell by the style and type of the coin. The seated Zeus coins came after Alexander conquered enough of Asia to have incorporated eastern Hellenisms into his culture.&nbsp; The seated Zeus had been a seated Baal. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, Alexander as Herakles runs quite a broad range, but all of them fit into a lattitude.&nbsp; If the obverse looks like yours, it is a coin of Alexander (or a successor).&nbsp; These types continued for easily 100 and perhaps 200 years after the death of Alexander, but dealers, cataloguers, and others&nbsp; conveniently give them Alexander&#039;s dates: 356-323.&nbsp; Of course, he did not issue coins the day he was born and the issues continued after his death.&nbsp; There are some ways to identify which coins were struck during Alexander&#039;s lifetime.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you care to learn more, there are good resources out on the web, and even better ones in books.&nbsp; If you are a member of the ANA, you can borrow books for free.&nbsp; Martin Jessop Price&#039;s COINS OF THE MACEDONIANS would be a requirement if you care to know these on sight.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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