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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2734588, member: 19463&quot;]&quot;Tetradrachms&quot; include quite a range of beasts.&nbsp; Hellenistic ones tend to have a ruler portrait and some god on the reverse.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never been into them all that much.&nbsp; Earlier Greeks are often not as large looking even if the weigh the same because of their greater thickness.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m not really comfortable with forcing the name on some coins just because they are large silver coins.&nbsp; We don&#039;t know what they were called in every case in every place.&nbsp;&nbsp; On the other end, the term is retained for billon and silver Roman Provincials.&nbsp; Do they count in your interest area?</p><p>&nbsp;Syracuse 5th century BC</p><p>[ATTACH=full]622820[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Side, c.200 BC</p><p>[ATTACH=full]622821[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There are many versions of Alexander types. This is a fourree from Arados, 185 BC.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]622822[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Demetrios Poliorketes 294-288 BC</p><p>[ATTACH=full]622823[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Eumenes II, Pergamon 197-159 BC </p><p>[ATTACH=full]622824[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Otho, Antioch, 69 AD</p><p>[ATTACH=full]622829[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Commodus, Alexandria, 180-181 AD</p><p>[ATTACH=full]622830[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If the appeal is large silver, there are staters or nomoi with as large diameters but thinner so they don&#039;t weigh as much.&nbsp; This one is Sybaris from the late 6th century BC.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]622840[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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