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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 6600886, member: 86498"]Looks like it is Saturday again. I went to breakfast with a friend and he showed me his coin which is more or less like mine. Alexander III Ar Tetradrachm 332-323 BC. Mint of Salamis? Obv Head of beardless Herakles in lion skin headdress. Rv. Zeus Aetrophoros seated left Price 3139 HGC 910h 17.15 grms 23 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1266244[/ATTACH]Currently this coin is still attributed to Salamis and therefore retains the date 332-323 BC. However Troxell does place the gold staters to the mint of Ephesos. Le Rider does concur with the notion that the staters do not belong to Salamis but made no comment on the tetradrachms. I wonder... the depiction of Zeus's legs in a pose which is something of a compromise between that of the legs being parallel and that of the crossed leg motif does remind me of some of the drachms minted in Asia Minor. If that be the case it is possible that this coin is actually minted at Ephesos sometime between 325 and 323 BC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 6600886, member: 86498"]Looks like it is Saturday again. I went to breakfast with a friend and he showed me his coin which is more or less like mine. Alexander III Ar Tetradrachm 332-323 BC. Mint of Salamis? Obv Head of beardless Herakles in lion skin headdress. Rv. Zeus Aetrophoros seated left Price 3139 HGC 910h 17.15 grms 23 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1266244[/ATTACH]Currently this coin is still attributed to Salamis and therefore retains the date 332-323 BC. However Troxell does place the gold staters to the mint of Ephesos. Le Rider does concur with the notion that the staters do not belong to Salamis but made no comment on the tetradrachms. I wonder... the depiction of Zeus's legs in a pose which is something of a compromise between that of the legs being parallel and that of the crossed leg motif does remind me of some of the drachms minted in Asia Minor. If that be the case it is possible that this coin is actually minted at Ephesos sometime between 325 and 323 BC.[/QUOTE]
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