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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 7430988, member: 86498"]One of my guilty pleasures when discussing the coinage in the name of Alexander the Great is re examining some of the number of coins minted with his name and types. There seems to an almost endless appetite for this type of coin among the cities of Asia Minor. I can more or less understand the rational of the cities on the southern coast of Asia Minor adopting this coinage after they were liberated from Ptolemaic control. However cities like Kyme, Magnesia, Myrina and Temnos remain something of a puzzle.</p><p>Temnos Tetradrachm 188-170 BC In the name and types of Alexander the Great. Obv Head of Herakles in lion skin headdress. Rv Zeus Aetophoros seated left. Price 1690 16.68 grms 33 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1289868[/ATTACH]Perhaps the most remarkable thing about these later posthumous Alexanders are the extremely broad flans. It appears that they are literally screaming out that they are on the Attic standard. However most of these cities should be under the aegis of the Kingdom of Pergamon which was minting the Royal coinage at the time which was also on the Attic standard. Furthermore these coin predate by quite a number of years the introduction of the cistophoric coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 7430988, member: 86498"]One of my guilty pleasures when discussing the coinage in the name of Alexander the Great is re examining some of the number of coins minted with his name and types. There seems to an almost endless appetite for this type of coin among the cities of Asia Minor. I can more or less understand the rational of the cities on the southern coast of Asia Minor adopting this coinage after they were liberated from Ptolemaic control. However cities like Kyme, Magnesia, Myrina and Temnos remain something of a puzzle. Temnos Tetradrachm 188-170 BC In the name and types of Alexander the Great. Obv Head of Herakles in lion skin headdress. Rv Zeus Aetophoros seated left. Price 1690 16.68 grms 33 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1289868[/ATTACH]Perhaps the most remarkable thing about these later posthumous Alexanders are the extremely broad flans. It appears that they are literally screaming out that they are on the Attic standard. However most of these cities should be under the aegis of the Kingdom of Pergamon which was minting the Royal coinage at the time which was also on the Attic standard. Furthermore these coin predate by quite a number of years the introduction of the cistophoric coinage.[/QUOTE]
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