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Message:: [QUOTE="Ryro, post: 8091239, member: 91461"]1st- LOVED reading your hypothesis and always love seeing your coins. As you know this is right up my collecting alley and I apologize for not responding sooner.2nd- I found 1 Laffaille 318 on AC search[ATTACH=full]1406259[/ATTACH]But it was sold in <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=&company=27&auction=1254" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=&company=27&auction=1254" rel="nofollow">MONNAIES 49</a> back in 2011. So there's more out there.3rd- KATERINI LIAMPI who wrote the book on MSCs („Zur Chronologie der sogenannten ‚anonymen’ makedonischen Münzen) or at least the most well put together report on them to date. In it she states (translated from German)"In short, W.  Weiser [13], argues that we have our Coin No.  1 should be attributed to Alexander V (294 BCE), the son of Kassander. Closely related to this piece, in his opinion, are also the following features: 1) The coins with lightning on the shield as well as various monograms and symbols on the lapel (eg Group 1, No. 2 ff.). He dates these pieces after the death of Alexander V and before the enthronement of the Demetrios Poliorketes (294 BC)."Here the first page of plates. She is saying that Weiser believes the first coin is Alexander V:[ATTACH=full]1406267[/ATTACH] I believe coin 1, despite being in poor condition, is with the lightening boss, the helmet is sans the usual bushel on top and lacks the BA on the reverse.Here are my closest two:[ATTACH=full]1406268[/ATTACH]  [ATTACH=full]1406269[/ATTACH]Alexander III – KassanderCirca 325-310 BC. Æ Unit (15.5mm, 4.28 g). Uncertain mint in Macedon. Macedonian shield; boss with thunderbolt flanked by dots / Macedonian helmet; monogram below. Price 413 var. (monogram). Near VF, dark green patina And a few of my Kassanders (dirt bag):[ATTACH=full]1406285[/ATTACH]Kassander311-297 BCE AE (15 MM2, 12g). ca. 306-297 BC MZST. Unknown in Macedonia. vs.: Head of Heracles in the Lion Scalp N. R. Rs.: BAΣIΛEΩΣ/KAΣΣANΔΡOΥ, Lion N. L., including Monogram. SNG cop. 1154 R! Former SAVOCA coin  [ATTACH=full]1406286[/ATTACH]Kassander305-298 BCE AE 20 Uncertain Macedonian mint. laureate head of Apollo right ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΚΑΣΣΑΝΔΡΟΥ, legend vertically downwards to right and left of tripod; to left, A (tipped ccw), to right, kerykion. SNG Alpha Bank 895-6; SNG München 1030. VF, dark green patina [ATTACH=full]1406288[/ATTACH]Kassander316-297 BCE Æ (18.08 mm, 5.23 g). Pella or Amphipolis. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / ΒΑ[ΣΙΛΕΩΣ] ΚΑΣΣΑΝ-ΔΡΟΥ, youth on horseback right, extending arm in salute; above, T; before, star; below, monogram. SNG Alpha Bank 917. Dark glossy green patina. Very fine."Kassander is first recorded as arriving at Alexander the Great’s court in Babylon in 323 BC, where he had been sent by his father, Antipater, likely to the help uphold Antipater’s regency in Macedon, although a later contemporary suggestion hostile to the Antipatrids was that Kassander had journeyed to poison the King.Whatever the truth of this suggestion, Kassander certainly proved to be singularly noted amongst the diadochi in his hostility to Alexander‘s memory. Alexander IV, Roxana, and Alexander’s supposed illegitimate son Heracles would all be executed on his orders, and a guarantee to Olympias to spare her life was not respected. So too, Kassander would restore Thebes, which had been destroyed under Alexander. This gesture was perceived at the time to be a snub to the deceased King.It was even said that he could not pass a statue of Alexander without feeling faint. Kassander has been perceived to be ambitious and unscrupulous, and even members of his own family were estranged from him. He was taught by philosopher Aristotle at the Lyceum in Greece.As Antipater grew close to death in 319 BC, he transferred the regency of Macedon not to Kassander, but to Polyperchon, possibly so as not to alarm the other diadochi through an apparent move towards dynastic ambition, but perhaps also because of Kassander’s own ambitions.Kassander rejected his father’s decision, and immediately went to court Antigonus, Ptolemy and Lysimachus as allies. Waging war on Polyperchon, Kassander would destroy his fleet, put Athens under the control of Demetrius of Phaleron, and declare himself Regent in 317 BC. After Olympias’ successful move against Philip III later in the year, Kassander would besiege her in Pydna. When the city fell two years later, Olympias was killed, and Kassander would have Alexander IV and Roxanne confined at Amphipolis.Kassander associated himself with the Argead dynasty by marrying Alexander’s half-sister, Thessalonica, and had Alexander IV and Roxanne executed in either 310 BC or the following year. Certainly, in 309, Polyperchon would begin forwarding the claims of Heracles as the true heir to the Macedonian inheritance, at which point Kassander bribed him to have the boy killed. After this, Kassander’s position in Greece and Macedonia was reasonably secure, and he would proclaim himself King in 305 BC. After the Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC, in which Antigonus was killed, he was undisputed in his control of Macedonia. However, he had little time to savour the fact, dying of dropsy in 297 BC." If you do reach out to Liampi or Weiser please let me know what they say![/QUOTE]

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