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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dougmeister, post: 2489565, member: 56842&quot;]Bought this two years ago and am just now getting around to making a proper label for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>All that the original seller had was: &quot;Alexander III (&#039;The Great&#039;) (336-323 BC). Ae. Macedonian mint&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>From sources here and elsewhere, this is what I have so far:</p><p><br /></p><p>---------------------------- 8&lt; --------------------------</p><p><i><b>Alexander the Great Type 1 (quiver type) bronze</b></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Obv: Herakles in a lion skin headdress facing right (is it Herakles or Alexander dressed *up* as Herakles?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev: Quiver with chevron above; &quot;Of Alexander&quot;; four chalkoi (hemiobol), club; trident head (spear head) below the club</p><p><br /></p><p>* I would like to get the actual Greek letters used here? Is this right?</p><p>Αλέξανδρος</p><p><br /></p><p>(My coin is not as nice as, but looks like the first coin on this page <a href="http://alexanderthegreatcoins.reidgold.com/bronzes.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://alexanderthegreatcoins.reidgold.com/bronzes.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Are they the same? Is mine too worn to tell for sure?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]526702[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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