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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 8221440, member: 86498&quot;]Well it is Saturday Night (or afternoon depending on how you look at it, While in New York I picked up another coin minted during the lifetime of Alexander III It is this coin</p><p>Alexander III Ar Tetradrachm Myriandros (possibly Alexandria ad Issum) 332-325 BC Obv. head of beardless Herakles in lion skin headdress right. Rv Zeus Aetophoros seated left.&nbsp; Price 3218 16.94 grms 25 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1444018[/ATTACH]Okay what do I know about this coin. The minting of Alexander tetradrachms at this mint during his lifetime is rather small. Le Rider indicates that there are ten dies known from this period. This coin is considered to be the first of two groups minted without the title of Basileos. The ME and scorpion group is somewhat larger than the subsequent MY group which continues on after the introduction of the title of Basileos. This mint presents something of a puzzle. In many respects the issue does resemble the issues from the earlier mints such as Tarsos and Tyre. In all of these mints the Zeus has a foot stool and there is no mintmark such as the DA found on the coins minted at Damaskos. it is possible that the MY in the second issue is a mintmark which further complicates the problem. At present I am thinking that the mint was active for a short time circa 332-331 BC and then closed until circa 325-323 BC when there was a sudden flood of activity in anticipation of the return of Alexander&#039;s army from India. The other option is that the mint started at 325 BC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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