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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 8207476, member: 96898"]You should be able to find your coin using this website: <a href="http://numismatics.org/pella/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/pella/" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/pella/</a>. The grapes below the club on the reverse are the control mark that will allow you to distinguish your coin from a large number of very similar issues struck for Alexander at different mints. For illustration, here are two Alexander AE units from my collection. They look very similar but bear different legends and control marks that allow to roughly date them and give a general mint location: [ATTACH=full]1438914[/ATTACH] Alexander III “the Great,” Kingdom of Macedonia, AE unit, 336–323 BC, unknown Macedonian mint. Obv: head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev: AΛEXANΔΡOY, between club and quiver with bow; below, dolphin (mostly off flan). 16.5mm, 5.50g. Ref: Price 323. [ATTACH=full]1438915[/ATTACH] Alexander III “the Great”  (postumous issue), Kingdom of Macedonia, AE unit, 323–310 BC, unknown mint in Asia Minor. Obv: head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, between club and quiver with bow; below, torch (countermarked). 20.5mm, 5.65g. Ref: Price 2800. [/QUOTE]