alexander the great silver coins for sale

ALEXANDER THE GREAT SILVER COINS FOR SALE SERIES

ALEXANDER THE GREAT SILVER COINS FOR SALE SERIES

A Sir George Hill wrote in 1909: There are few series which present more difficulties in the way of chronological classification than the 'Alexanders.' The mass of material is so vast and the differences between the varieties so minute, so uninteresting to anyone but the numismatic specialist, and so difficult to express in print, that very little progress has been made since the publication of L. Their very number, however, and the large array of monograms and symbols used to identify the mints where the coins were struck and the mint officials who supervised the work, make this one of the most challenging series for the numismatist. Today 'Alexanders' still exist by the thousands. Even as the successor kings initialed coinages in their own names and with their own types the 'Alexanders' lived on for two centuries during which time they were issued by independent cities as an international coinage. Such coins were not only minted during Alexander's lifetime but their issue was continued in the two decades following his death by the Macedonian generals who divided the empire between them and created the Hellenistic kingdoms.

2.5 cm., Brown University Collection, gift of Capt. Alexander's coins, the most familiar being the silver issues bearing a head of Herakles on one face and a seated Zeus with the king's name on the other, were struck throughout the empire. The repercussions of his reign were thus profound, and nowhere more so than in the history of money. The Hellenistic Near East and the Hellenistic world beyond the Near East were the product of Alexander's adventure. This vast region stretched from the borders of India and inner Afganistan in the east to the Adriatic Sea in the west and from Egypt in the south to the coasts of the Black Sea in the north. In the course of just thirteen years before his death at Babylon in 323 B.C., he changed the Mediterranean and Near Eastern world forever by bringing the territory of the Persian Empire under Greek rule. The Dating of the Coinage of Alexander the GreatĪlexander the Great, only twenty years old when he became king of Macedonia in 336 B.C., was perhaps the greatest general of all time.

Alexander the great silver coins for sale