Say "hi" to Big Al. (Al is "Great", you might say...)

lordmarcovan

This posthumous Alexander the Great tetradrachm is struck on what seems to me to be a huge flan. At 34 to 34.5 mm, it's roughly the same size as my big fat Galba sestertius (boy, I wish the Romans had struck silver this big!), and nearly the size of a US silver dollar.

Any input you have on its attribution and value would be appreciated. I bought it around 1998 and then gave it to my sister after she did me a big favor. She's had it ever since, but I just persuaded her to swap it back to me for some other stuff. Gonna send it off in my next NGC submission, I think, and will probably sell it since it doesn't fit my collections, but then again, I'll almost certainly miss it when I do. Anyway, Al's back home to visit for a little while, at least until he goes off somewhere else again. I'm enjoying the visit. I got my old Augustus type coin back today, too, so that's two BC coins in the mail today. Not an everyday ocurrence for me.





Check out the high relief. There's no way the ancient Greeks were stackin' their coins.

JCMhouston

I do like those Greek coins, very nice.

lordmarcovan

BTW, when I bought it way back, it was attributed as being from Temnos, circa 305 BC. I have no idea of whether this is accurate or not.

(Gonna search Wildwinds to see what I can find out.)

Edit: yep- we're gettin' pretty warm, I'd say...

stainless

beautiful coin! I don't really do much in Greek so I can't comment on the attribution.


stainless