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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2516418, member: 51347&quot;]Very appropriate thread, and what a great A-III Tet!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a couple Lifetimes and a Posthumous to offer up:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]535985[/ATTACH]</p><p>Makedon Alexander III 336-323 BC AR 16.5g TET <b>Posthumous</b> Obv-Rev.jpg</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]535986[/ATTACH]</p><p>Makedon</p><p>Alexander III, 336-323 BCE</p><p>AR Tetradrachm (16.86g) (24.1mm)</p><p><b>Lifetime Issue</b></p><p>Obv: Herakles</p><p>Rev: Zeus, Large Ball Throne</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Since Alexander died in Babylon... here is a Babylonian LOCAL Currency struck during the Lifetime of Alexander...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]535990[/ATTACH]</p><p>BABYLONIA, Babylon</p><p><b>AR Tetradrachm / Stater (or Dishekel)</b></p><p>Minted ca. 323-328 B.C.</p><p>24 mm, 16.3g</p><p>Obv: Ba’al seated left holding scepter</p><p>Rev: Lion walking left, control mark Г above. (Control mark was minted during<b>Alexander III Lifetime</b>)</p><p>Ref: Ref: BMC Arabia XXII no.1</p><p>Comment: &quot;This type was discussed by Martin Price in his article &quot;Circulation at Babylon in 323 BC,&quot; in the book &quot;Mnemata: Papers in Memory of Nancy M. Waggoner.&quot; He asserts that a reengraved die clearly shows the &quot;lion staters&quot; with gamma followed the ones with delta. &quot;They are probably shekels on the local standard.&quot; (page 67). He dates them to the lifetime of Alexander, because they were present in a hoard with deposition dated to 323/2. He doesn&#039;t give the earliest possible date explicitly, but mentions that Mazaeus was governor until 328 and issued coins, so I infer Price would put them at or after 328. So you can say &quot;Struck 323 or before, under Alexander the Great.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This pic is from one of [USER=15445]@Collect89[/USER]&nbsp; posts... as it is the same thickness as mine...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]535991[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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