WHC 148

  • WHC 148
  • Hellenistic
  • Argead
  • Diadochi Coins
  • Alexander III the Great (under Ptolemy I Soter as Satrap)
  • Tyre
  • 315/4 BC
  • Tetradrachm
  • AR
  • 27 mm
  • 17.12 g
  • 7 h
  • Newell 1916, p. 35 (Ake); Newell 1923 (Ake); Lemaire 1976 (Tyre); Price 1991, 3283 (Ake); Le Rider 2003, p. 170-188 (Tyre).
  • CNG, 940287 (ex Elvira Elisa Clain-Stefanelli Collection; as the Demarete Collection).
  • 2012-12-03

Head of beardless Herakles right, wearing lion skin; dotted border.

Zeus seated l. on throne, himation over lower part of body, holding eagle on outstretched r. hand and resting l. hand on sceptre, feet on stool; dotted border.

 

ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, on r. downwards; ‘ain kaph 32, in l. field (in Phoenician).


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