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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 7641719, member: 86498"]Last week i presented two tetradrachms minted under the aegis of Kassander. Today I will present my third coin of this king</p><p>Av Stater of Kassander Amphipolis 300-290 BC In the name and types of Alexander III Obv Helmeted head of Athena. Rv Nike standing left. in field trident. Price 172 HGC 987 8.60 grams 19 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1314006[/ATTACH]If you think separating the lifetime tetradrachms from the posthumous issues is fun, the staters are even more problematic. The trident symbol in the left field is used from when the stater coinage was initiated in 332 BC and continued to be used until the very end and can be used at other mints. The only means to identify a lifetime issue is to study the style of the coin. Lifetime issues have larger longer helmets with correspondingly smaller faces. As can be seen in this coin the face is large and the helmet is rather shorter and smaller. The vast majority of the Alexander staters from Amphipolis that have been offered for sale over the last twenty years have been posthumous. Working on the coinage of the Macedonian Kings reminds me of this[ATTACH=full]1314017[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 7641719, member: 86498"]Last week i presented two tetradrachms minted under the aegis of Kassander. Today I will present my third coin of this king Av Stater of Kassander Amphipolis 300-290 BC In the name and types of Alexander III Obv Helmeted head of Athena. Rv Nike standing left. in field trident. Price 172 HGC 987 8.60 grams 19 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1314006[/ATTACH]If you think separating the lifetime tetradrachms from the posthumous issues is fun, the staters are even more problematic. The trident symbol in the left field is used from when the stater coinage was initiated in 332 BC and continued to be used until the very end and can be used at other mints. The only means to identify a lifetime issue is to study the style of the coin. Lifetime issues have larger longer helmets with correspondingly smaller faces. As can be seen in this coin the face is large and the helmet is rather shorter and smaller. The vast majority of the Alexander staters from Amphipolis that have been offered for sale over the last twenty years have been posthumous. Working on the coinage of the Macedonian Kings reminds me of this[ATTACH=full]1314017[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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