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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 7838716, member: 118780&quot;]I <i>think</i> this tet is lifetime based on Leu&#039;s dating of 324/323 BCE. Since the Persians used fire signals off mountaintops to deliver messages, news of Alexander&#039;s death would have travelled in under a day from Babylon to Susa. Koinos was given the satrapy during Alexander&#039;s lifetime (325 BCE).</p><p><br /></p><p>Pella gives this coin a range of 325 - 320, but my suspicion is Leu is going off more recent research. I&#039;ve also seen Price 3829 listed on CNG with the same dates, so my feeling is it&#039;s lifetime - at least until the next paper is published. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>One curiosity is that Susa coins up to 320 BCE are still attributed to Koinos. As I understand, Antigenes was given the satrapy after Alexander&#039;s death. However, he spent most of his time running around with Eumenes, so presumably he wasn&#039;t able to administer it? I researched this a bit since I wondered whether the later Susa coins could be attributed to Antigenes, but I concluded that they could not - which is why I went for an earlier coin from Koinos, since we do know that he had the satrapy at Alexander&#039;s death, but it&#039;s uncertain for how long afterwards.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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