Alexander III fakes die links

[Joe Sermarini]

Are all the fakes here reported in the Fake Coin Reports?

[n.igma]

Another example from the same dies as one in discussion above (BSCC Bulletin on Counterfeits BOCS Vol 5 No.12 1980 Page 3 Fig 10), just posted for auction by a Spanish vendor  with a Eur 1,000 estimate...

Imperio Macedonio. Alejandro III, Magno (336-323 a.C.). Arados. Tetradracma. (S. 6720 var) (MJP. 3332jo). 16,64 g. Bella. Rara así. EBC+.

[stevex6]

Very interesting thread regarding Alexander the Great fakes ... thanks for the interesting examples and discussion.

Ummm, I thought that you guys might find this coin kind of interesting as well ...

=> It is a fourree of Alex's half-brother, Philip III

"Philip III Arrhidaeus (c. 359 BC – 25 December, 317 BC) reigned as king of Macedonia from after 11 June 323 BC until his death. He was a son of King Philip II of Macedon by Philinna of Larissa, and thus an elder half-brother of Alexander the Great"

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 
Fourrée Fifth Tetradrachm
323-317 BC
Copying Amphipolis mint issue struck under Polyperchon, circa 318–317 BC
Diameter: 13 mm
Weight: 1.94 grams
Obverse: Head of Apollo right, wearing tainia
Reverse: Youth on horseback right; shield below
Reference: For prototype, cf. Le Rider pl. 46, 29 & 32; cf. Troxell, Studies, Group 8, 382; cf. SNG ANS 731-5
Other: 8h … VF, toned, breaks in plating exposing bronze core
From the collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from Antioch Associates, 23 February 1998

[djmacdo]

Thanks for posting the fourree--a very interesting coin.