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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 7966792, member: 86498&quot;]Missed Saturday for a couple of weeks now. So what is new for me today. Well a couple of things. The first is unless some disaster intervenes, (read COVID) I will be heading to London England and I hope to attend the London Coin Fair which is 6 November. This will be my first vacay since this whole mess started and I am looking forward to it. I hope to start a thread on the London Coin Fair after I arrive.</p><p>&nbsp;The second is my on going work on the coinage of Alexander III. When I bought this coin I assumed it was one of the Basileos issues that started in 325 BC, I have since&nbsp; concluded that the date for this coin is 322-320 BC, The mint is disputed as well however it is most likely Side.</p><p>Tetradrachm of Alexander IV in the name and types of Alexander III 322-320 BC Mint of Side? Obv. Head of beardless Herakles wearing lionskin headdress. Rv Zeus Aetophoros seated left. Price 2949 HGC 943b 17.18 grms 26 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1381374[/ATTACH]In particular what interests me about this coin is that it is an example of the fore leg reverted or pulled back style which appeared sometime after the introduction of Alexander coinage in Cilicia and the Levant. This reverse image appears to not have a footstool. The tetradrachms of this style may have have been the inspiration for the drachms issued at the mints in Asia Minor. At present I am studying the tetradrachm issues from Asia Minor attempting to determine when when this style of image commenced.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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