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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24884406, member: 26430&quot;]There are features that <i>tend to</i> be found on posthumous or lifetime issues, some more reliable than others, but to be sure you need to identify each coin to the &quot;Price #&quot; (for Martin Price&#039;s standard reference). (There are exceptions to the crossed/uncrossed legs, BASILEUS legend, and monograms in fields as indicators. Though giant 32-35mm spread flan tetradrachms always mean late posthumous, since that was a later Hellenistic development.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The book is expensive so most people compare to sale records (e.g., <a href="https://acsearch.info" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://acsearch.info" rel="nofollow">acsearch.info</a>) or use the American Numismatic Society&#039;s PELLA site, organized by Price #, and which gives a date range for each coin: <a href="https://numismatics.org/pella/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://numismatics.org/pella/" rel="nofollow">https://numismatics.org/pella/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Alexander&#039;s lifetime ones aren&#039;t rare, but there are fewer since the posthumous ones were struck for centuries after his death and consequently very common (as a whole). Lifetime Drachms (and fractions) seem a bit more common, since they weren&#039;t struck quite as much posthumously.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note also, there are lots of &quot;possible lifetime&quot; issues (e.g., dated circa 325-320 BCE).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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