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Probably Alexander The Great Coin?

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 Posted 11/18/2013  3:12 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Zriver to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Please help me identifying this coins.
I know it's silver as I have tested it.
Also it looks like Alexander the great.


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 Posted 11/19/2013  01:32 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DVCollector to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
What's the size/weight? I think I read Alexander in the inscription.
It's probably a posthumous issue, since Zeus w/crossed legs came later.

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It does appear to be a posthumous example of a coin of Alexander III.

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Radius 3cm, weight 13,6 grams.
Yes, it's inscribed Alexander.
Problem is OH letters under the Zeus's arm.
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Judging by the weight, it's a tetradrachm that has a few breaks.
Nice piece of history!
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It is a posthumous Alexander the Great tetradrachm, struck at Odessos in Thrace, ca. 280-225 B.C. Missing from Price, but from the same dies as several specimens in the Black Sea Hoard (nos. 231-9).

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DVcollecor tnx.
And sorry for my bad English, but can you please clarify this sentence for me Missing from Price?
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Certainly. By "missing from Price" I meant that the coin is not published in Martin Price's substantial work on Alexander's coins... Price, Martin J. The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus. A British Museum Catalogue. 2 vols. Zurich and London: The Swiss Numismatic Society in conjunction with British Museum Press, 1991.
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