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IONIAN & LYDIAN SATRAPS. Spithridates (ca. 334 BC). AR tetrobol (15mm, 3.05 gm, 10h). NGC Choice AU 3/5 - 4/5. Achaemenid Period, under Darius III. Head of Spithridates left, wearing Persian headdress / ΣΠI-ΘPI, forepart of Pegasus right. BMC 18. Traité II 2, pl. LXXXIX, 1-3. L. Mildenberg, Vestigia Leonis, p. 9, pl. III, 26. W. Wroth, NC (1900), pp. 289-90, no. 23. H.A. Cahn, Revue des études anciennes 91 (1989), pp. 97-105. C. Harrison in: Oikistes. Studies in Honor of A.J. Graham (Leiden, 2002), pp. 301-319. J. Bodzek, Israel Numismatic Review 3 (2008), pp. 4-6. Highly appealing portrait with monster blue, red, violet, and gold toning.
Spithridates was one of the Persian commanders at the battle of the River Granicus, the first engagement after Alexander the Great's invasion of Asia. Spithridates was killed in this battle, as he was poised to strike down Alexander himself. The Spithridates coins have always been interpreted as money minted to pay Spithridates' army when he defended Western Asia Minor against Alexander. The Lampsacene reverse (Pegasus rather than a horse) might point instead to a date in early spring 334 BC, when or shortly before Alexander crossed the Hellespont.
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IONIAN & LYDIAN SATRAPS. Spithridates (ca. 334 BC). AR tetrobol (15mm, 3.05 gm, 10h). NGC Choice AU 3/5 - 4/5. Achaemenid Period, under Darius III. Head of Spithridates left, wearing Persian headdress / ΣΠI-ΘPI, forepart of Pegasus right. BMC 18. Traité II 2, pl. LXXXIX, 1-3. L. Mildenberg, Vestigia Leonis, p. 9, pl. III, 26. W. Wroth, NC (1900), pp. 289-90, no. 23. H.A. Cahn, Revue des études anciennes 91 (1989), pp. 97-105. C. Harrison in: Oikistes. Studies in Honor of A.J. Graham (Leiden, 2002), pp. 301-319. J. Bodzek, Israel Numismatic Review 3 (2008), pp. 4-6. Highly appealing portrait with monster blue, red, violet, and gold toning.
Spithridates was one of the Persian commanders at the battle of the River Granicus, the first engagement after Alexander the Great's invasion of Asia. Spithridates was killed in this battle, as he was poised to strike down Alexander himself. The Spithridates coins have always been interpreted as money minted to pay Spithridates' army when he defended Western Asia Minor against Alexander. The Lampsacene reverse (Pegasus rather than a horse) might point instead to a date in early spring 334 BC, when or shortly before Alexander crossed the Hellespont.
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HID02906262019
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