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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Alexander the Great| > GS86196
Macedonian Kingdom, Alexander the Great, 336 - 323 B.C., Struck by Antipater
|Alexander| |the| |Great|, |Macedonian| |Kingdom,| |Alexander| |the| |Great,| |336| |-| |323| |B.C.,| |Struck| |by| |Antipater|, Struck under at Amphipolis under Antipater, c. 325-323/2 B.C., most likely during the lifetime and rule of Alexander the Great. When Alexander the Great set out on his Asiatic expedition in 334 B.C., Antipater was left behind as regent in Macedonia and strategos of Europe. After Alexander died, the regent, Perdiccas, left Antipater in control of Greece.
GS86196. Silver tetradrachm, Price 79, Troxell Studies E3, Müller Alexander 392, SNG Cop 677, SNG Munchen 258, SNG Alpha Bank 478, Demanhur 792,, VF, well centered on a tight flan, coppery areas, bumps and scratches, Macedonia, Amphipolis mint, weight 16.739g, maximum diameter 26.3mm, die axis 30o, c. 325 - 323/2 B.C.; obverse head of Herakles right, wearing Nemean Lion skin, scalp over head, forepaws tied at neck; reverse Zeus Aëtophoros seated left on throne without back, nude to waist, himation around hips and legs, right foot forward (archaic lifetime style), eagle in extended right hand, long scepter vertical behind in left hand, cock standing left in left field, AΛΕΞANΔPOY downward on right; SOLD











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