A guide to the principal gold and silver coins of the ancients ...

B.C. 336-280. 63
13, 14. Alexander IV. (?). Types of Alexander the Great's coins.
Wts. 263 grs. and 260 grs.
These two fine tetradracliins were found, with others of
the same fabric, at Patras, in Achaia. They are supposed
to have been struck at Sicyon, by Polysperchon, between
the years B.C. 316 and 311, in the name of Alexander
IV., the son of Alexander the Great by Eoxana. Coins of
this class are distinguished from all others bearing the
name of Alexander by the presence of two Victories on
the back of the throne.
15. Demetrius Poliorcetes, B.C. 294-288. AT. Obv. Head
of Demetrius, with bull's horn of Bacchus. Eev. BAZIAEQZ
AHMHTPIOY. Armed horseman. Wt. 131-8 grs.
16. Demetrius Poliorcetes. M. Obv. Similar head. Bev.
BAZIAEHZ AHMHTPIOY. Poseidon leaning on trident, his
right foot resting on rock. Wt. 264 grs.
17. Demetrius Poliorcetes. M. Obv. Nike, or Fame, carrying a
trophy-stand, and blowing a trumpet, standing on the prow of a
galley. Bev. AHMHTPIOY BAZIAEQZ. Poseidon, naked,
wielding trident, his chlamys wrapped round his left arm. Wt,
266 grs.
The types of this coin refer to the naval victory gained
by the fleet of Antigonus, under his son Demetrius, over
that of Ptolemy, off the island of Cyprus, in B.C. 306.
18. Lysimachus, B.C. 306-281. M. Obv. Head of Herakles, in
lion's skin. i2CT. BAZIAEOZ AYZIMAXOY. Zeus Aetophoros,
seated. In the field, the forepart of a lion, the mint-mark of the
town of Lysimachia. Wt. 264 grs.
19. 20. Lysimachus. (19) A/". Obv. Head of Alexander the
Great, with horn of Ammon. Bev. BAZIAEHZ AYZIMAXOY.
Athena Nicephoros seated, holding spear ; behind her throne, a
shield. Wt. 132 grs. (20) ^. Tetradrachm of the same type.
Wt. 262 grs.
Alexander the Great is represented on these coins in a
deified character, as the son of Ammon. The head is
probably taken from the statue-portrait by Lysippus or
the gem-portrait by Pyrgoteles.