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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3013398, member: 44316&quot;]During the early third century AD the Koinon (&quot;League&quot; of cities) of Macedonia struck coins under the Romans. Here is one from the league dated to &quot;the time of Severus Alexander&quot; (222-235) without the Roman emperor&#039;s name (but his name did have &quot;Alexander&quot; in it), rather the head of Alexander the Great and Alexander riding his horse right with spear and flying cape.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]747688[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>ALEΞANΔPOY</p><p>KOINON MAKEΔONΩN BN</p><p>where &quot;BN&quot; at the end refers to &quot;twice Neocorate&quot; (two temples to the cult of the emperor). The mint was at Thessalonica.</p><p>Sear Greek Imperial --. BMC Macedonia p.23 #104 is similar.</p><p>SNG Copenhagen II 1356 (same reverse).</p><p><br /></p><p>There are very many reverse varieties of this coinage. Wildwinds illustrates many:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://wildwinds.com/coins/greece/macedonia/koinon/t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://wildwinds.com/coins/greece/macedonia/koinon/t.html" rel="nofollow">http://wildwinds.com/coins/greece/macedonia/koinon/t.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It is interesting for showing what third century Romans thought Alexander the Great looked like.</p><p><br /></p><p>Show us some other coins of Macedonia under the Romans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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