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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 7659150, member: 86498"]Alexander III Ar Tetradrachm Amphipolis 332-326 BC Obv Head of beardless Herakles right wearing lion skin headdress. Rv Zeus Aetophoros seated left Price 29 Troxell Issue B7 17.16 grams 24 mm photo by w. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1316670[/ATTACH]</p><p>This coin is part of the second issue initiated by Antipater in response to problems being stirred up by the Persians in Greece as Alexander was occupied with his invasion of the Persian Empire. Troxell identified four issues from the mint of Amphipolis as being lifetime, these being issues A through D. Group E is now considered posthumous. Troxell had identified this much larger issue as being used to pay Alexander's veterans when they had returned home but unfortunately these individuals were still in Tarsos Cilicia when he died.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 7659150, member: 86498"]Alexander III Ar Tetradrachm Amphipolis 332-326 BC Obv Head of beardless Herakles right wearing lion skin headdress. Rv Zeus Aetophoros seated left Price 29 Troxell Issue B7 17.16 grams 24 mm photo by w. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1316670[/ATTACH] This coin is part of the second issue initiated by Antipater in response to problems being stirred up by the Persians in Greece as Alexander was occupied with his invasion of the Persian Empire. Troxell identified four issues from the mint of Amphipolis as being lifetime, these being issues A through D. Group E is now considered posthumous. Troxell had identified this much larger issue as being used to pay Alexander's veterans when they had returned home but unfortunately these individuals were still in Tarsos Cilicia when he died.[/QUOTE]
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