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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikey Zee, post: 2904524, member: 72818&quot;]Wonderful thread!!! LOVE the coins and presentation!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess my recent purchase of the lifetime Tet of Alexander struck at Tarsos fits the theme. Once I realized it was one of the first ever struck with the historical context below, I just had to have it.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Passing virtually unopposed through the Cilician Gates, Alexander entered Tarsos, the capital of the satrapy of Cilicia, in the summer of 333 BC, and, from August-October of that year, the city served as both a strategic and financial base of his eastward military operations. This coin was part of the <b>first issue</b> of Alexander&#039;s coinage, and was struck at Tarsos very shortly after that city&#039;s liberation from Achaemenid domination. The first series of Tarsos had not only the distinction of being the very first issue of what we now call the Alexandrine coinage---the engravers working at Tarsos immediately re-tasked to producing Alexandrine coinage without any great break in production---but was also the first of what would soon be many liberated Achaemenid cities to strike coinage in the name of Alexander. Price demonstrates conclusively that the dies produced at Tarsos bearing <b>BA</b> as well as simply <b>B</b> refer to Balakros, son of Nikanor, who was one of Alexander&#039;s somatophylakes (bodyguards) and was appointed satrap of Cilicia after the Battle of Issos in 333 BC. He enacted many new fiscal measures in Alexander&#039;s name, and served Alexander loyally until his death circa 324 BC while leading an expedition against a revolt in Pisidia.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/al-the-great-lifetime-tet-tarsus-jpg.685420/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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