Posted 01/06/2011 08:29 am
Well, it's certainly in the style of an Alexander the Great drachm, but tetradrachms have the same design. What's the size and/or weight? That would confirm the denomination.
Trawling through looking for pics of a specific variety of Alexandrine coinage can be tough - the Alexander page of Wildwinds is huge, and I doubt it could be considered "comprehensive". The symbol under the throne is likely to be the Greek letter phi, which is equivalent to our letter F. Searching that Wildwinds page for the letter "F", by itself, yielded this posthumous drachm from Kolophon mint which seems to be a match for yours.
Trawling through looking for pics of a specific variety of Alexandrine coinage can be tough - the Alexander page of Wildwinds is huge, and I doubt it could be considered "comprehensive". The symbol under the throne is likely to be the Greek letter phi, which is equivalent to our letter F. Searching that Wildwinds page for the letter "F", by itself, yielded this posthumous drachm from Kolophon mint which seems to be a match for yours.
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