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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 7660100, member: 87809&quot;]What beautiful coins! This is really an Alexander virtual exhibition <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;......Alexander seems to have liked Amphipolis, because one of his last plans was to spend no less than 315 tons silver for a splendid new temple in the city that was to be dedicated to Artemis Tauropolus. It was never built, but after Alexander&#039;s death on June 11, 323 BC in Babylon, his wife, queen Roxane, settled in Amphipolis, which appears to have become one of the residences of the Macedonian royals. In 179 BC, king Philip V died in the town.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The reference for this tetra says that the mint is uncertain - I really don&#039;t like when they say so.... but it is what it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>AR Tetradrachm</p><p>Amphipolis (uncertain) ca. 320-317 BC, stated authority Alexander III of Macedon</p><p>Price 133; Price monogram 1238 (Π and Ο under throne); Müller 542; SNG Copenhagen 688;</p><p>24 mm, 17.031 g</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Alexander the Great as Herakles facing right wearing the Nemean lion skin, with horns curling around ears. Circle of dots.</p><p>Rev.: AΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated on a backless throne to left, himation around hips and legs, eagle in extended r. hand and long scepter behind in l. </p><p>To left, dolphin; below throne, monogram (Π and O) [ATTACH=full]1316775[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1316748[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1316749[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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